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Sun Sentinel Wins Its First Pulitzer Prize

South Florida's largest newspaper has finally snagged its first Pulitzer Prize, the award committee at Columbia University announced this afternoon. A three-part series called "Cops among Florida's Worst Speeders," which detailed how often -- and egregiously -- off-duty police officers speed on our ... More >>

Is Jeb Bush's Education Group Helping Write Laws that Benefit Its Corporate Funders?

After he left the governor's office in 2008, Jeb Bush set up an education non-profit group, and last week, The Nation charged that Bush "could be using his education reform crusade for personal gain."The dust-up began when the union-affiliated research group In the Public Interest (IPI) us ... More >>

New Times' Biogenesis Story: Extraordinary Attention and Denials

A story broken yesterday in New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Miami New Times has received astounding national and international attention.The piece, which employed hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to show that major sports stars had received performance-enhancing drugs from a Coral Gables clin ... More >>

Majority of Floridians Support Gay Marriage, According to New Poll

Oh, Florida. You were off to such a terrible start today (as is the case most days). With this, and then this. But now... you go and do something like this...and totally redeem yourself! No, really. According to a Washington Post poll conducted in September, 54 percent of Florida voters think ... More >>

Jim Lehrer's Moderating Style Was Basically Free-Form Jazz (With Memes!)

Whether you think Obama was replaced by a sock puppet or Mitt was a mound of horse poo or have declared the election a landslide for Romney based on one debate, one thing we can all agree on from last night: Jim Lehrer sucked. Between getting bullied by Mitt and letting Obama ramble and mumbling hi ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Secret Palm Beach Stump Speech: Destroy HUD, Pitch a "Republican DREAM Act"

It's amazing what a politician will say when he doesn't think the press is around.Mitt Romney, who's the subject of this week's cover story, held a closed-door, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach Sunday night, and, though he has been irritatingly vague in his publicly announced plans for his p ... More >>

Connie Mack Says Bill Nelson Voted for Getting Monkeys High on Coke (VIDEO)

We're a little more than six months away from Election Day, and you know what that means -- it's time to brace yourself for attack-ad season.Florida Republican Rep. Cornelius "Connie Mack" McGillicuddy sent one out on the airwaves yesterday that didn't have very much content in its 30 seconds, but w ... More >>

The Food List Challenge, Round Two

​Last week, we told you about the Food List Challenge, the Facebook app of 100 dishes and drinks to prove you're a foodnik. So far, 335,345 people have tried it, including former food critic for the Washington Post Phyllis Richman (97) and former New Times critic Gail Shepherd (85). Some of the ... More >>

The Food List Challenge, Round One

​I've liked The Food List Challenge app on Facebook that lists 100 dishes and drinks to prove you're a foodnik. So far, 335,345 people have tried it, including former food critic for the Washington Post, Phyllis Richman (97) and former New Times critic Gail Shepherd (85). Some of the items are rid ... More >>

What's New for the Holidays? Some Drink Links

slashfood​Get Crafty: Craft booze is booming, according to Good Magazine, as a result of the recession: "The Second Great Depression has been just as effective as the first at driving Americans into the soothing arms of a strong drink. Only this time around, our options for getting tanked are a lo ... More >>

While Cooking on the Cheap, Colicchio Is Spit Out by a Six Year Old

​A six year old spit out Tom Colicchio's food on a stage in Washington earlier this week, reported Tim Carman of The Washington Post. Part of the Great American Family Dinner Challenge, Austin Jackson rejected two dishes prepared by teams of top chefs cooking meals based on a food stamp budget of ... More >>

What Makes a Good Butcher? Sharp Knives and Good Customers

​My grandfather ran a company in which he made sausages for Italian, Polish, and German immigrants throughout Boston. My father worked there in summers between college. My uncle worked there for decades. I remember my grandfather telling stories about his craft and his customers, scenarios that cu ... More >>

Food and Drug Pairings: Hiding Contraband Edition

kvue.com​This being Florida, drug news seems to make headlines more often than elsewhere. And the trend will likely increase as South Florida will become an even more dominant hub for drug traffic. This week The Washington Post reports that old drug smuggling routes between our state and the Carib ... More >>

Marco Rubio: Washington Post Story "Misses the Point Completely"

​Last week, the Washington Post published its exposé on how Sen. Marco Rubio "embellished" his family history, and after a few days, no one's really sure what the hell happened there.The Post validates the reasoning behind the article correcting Rubio's family history -- which involves dates befo ... More >>

Hi There -- I'm the New Food Critic

My dog, Charlie, tired after a very long journey here.​​ Two months ago, at the edge of a gentrifying area in Washington, D.C., I was sitting with some food-writer friends at Death Metal Cocktail Night in a very dark, very loud bar in a former garage called American Ice Company, sampling ominous ... More >>

Fake Exorcists From Broward Arrested

St. Francis Borgia was full of it, too.​Our benighted federal prosecutors are in for a bumpy ride.As of yesterday, a few of these unlucky do-gooders have been charged with the task of punishing three women arrested for performing expensive fake exorcisms. The women, who hail from Broward, are 36-y ... More >>

Should Florida GOP Return Donations?

Stephen Prosper JusticeHarry Sargeant III​Yesterday, The Washington Post revealed that Delray Beach billionaire and oilman Harry Sargeant III may have bilked to the US government -- and, by extension, the US taxpayer -- to the tune of $200 million, while supplying jet fuel to American troops in we ... More >>

In Case You Missed It: Lunar Eclipse Photos

​Photo by Justin Terveen​Last night, the universe decided to gift humans with an early Christmas present: a total lunar eclipse. This all came the morning of the Winter Solstice, the day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Sure, lunar ec ... More >>

Man Bites Dog: The Friday Grab Bag

Nothing ripe on the reporting end and nothing big breaking at the moment so I thought I'd cull together some interesting stories from other places. Model Citizen's latest creation ​-- We finally get a little Scott Rothstein action in the political season with Kelly Skidmore's "Angel of Dea ... More >>

Eating Around the Blog-o-sphere

Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we'll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere.A local beer blog called Beer Review Dude interviews Holy Mackerel owner Bob Gordash at last week's tasting event at World of Beer.Worst Pizza will host another pizza tweetup ... More >>

Dept. of Education Offers Cash to Schools Willing to Throw a Coup

Flickr: cliff1066™Is picture-perfect education just an administration shuffle away?​School principals celebrating summer by sipping cocktails on poolside lounge chairs: Look alive. The federal government will allot $170.2 million to low-achieving Florida schools, Secretary of Education Arne Dunc ... More >>

Cash4Gold Offers to Take Over Cash for Clunkers

Flickr: jamesos1Should the feds trust the guy with the biggest pile of gold in Florida?​Jeffrey Aronson and his partner in Cash4Gold are mighty proud of themselves. They wrote a letter to Congress and the White House boasting of how their Pompano Beach-based company has turned a recession into a w ... More >>

A Brave Man's Last Words: "Take My Hat"

A family photo provided to the Washington PostCharles SchulzeThat's what Charles Schulze said to his companion of 20 years, Helen Smith, a moment before he jumped into a churning ocean to save two boys, aged 9 and 12, in danger of drowning Saturday at Pompano Beach.Schulze, a personal injury lawyer ... More >>

Abrams: Enough With The Exclamation Points!

Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams continues on his jihad against "fake and jive" in local TV news. He says he talked to a "voice guy" Tribune stations were using and was given the lowdown.         "The copy he receives is often horrible," Abrams writes. " ... More >>

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

But you’ll be wide awake at Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy

RIP Liz Donovan

It's a sad day for journalism. Former Miami Herald researcher and "Infomaniac" Liz Donovan has died of lung cancer at age 63. Read the Miami Herald obit on Donovan here, which includes some interesting stuff about her work at the Washington Post as a researcher for Bob Woodward a ... More >>

To Know Them Is to Love Them

99 Red Balloons

Plus one

In With the Old, Out With the New

Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust

Shine On A Crazy Newspaper

Middle Distance Runner

Again With The Future of Journalism Stuff

The Last Refuge of Scoundrels

Is Miami Herald Land Sale Inevitable?

Who's Your Brother?

A photographic exhibition at the Boca Museum tacitly demands answers from us

Pulitzer Winner Leaving Miami Herald

The Tortilla Crisis

Buy Mexico's corn wraps or prepare for yet another wave of immigrants, holmes

The Seminoles Like It

Whose Lifestyle, Anyway?

Let's Chill On The Use of the Term "Gay Bashing"

The Value of JonBenet

Kool Keith

The Return of Dr. Octagon (OCD International)

Givus Some Truth

Letters for June 22–28, 2006

Sun-Sentinel Shut Out, Again

Letters for June 9-15, 2005

Tom Terrific

After you read this critic's magic, you'll want to stand and applaud

Ear Infection

Undercurrents

You Can't Hide From David Muskowitz

Using just a home computer, Tamarac's Super Snooper can pull up information that you mistakenly thought was private