flickr.com Johnny Cash: Dressed in Black We’ve written about the local media’s awkward refusal to mention the race of violent, uncaptured suspects in police stories a few times. (Here and here.) It’s odd that a newspaper would inform its readers how violent an individual might be and mention what that…
When Carol Anne Burger called Boynton Beach police just before 1 p.m. October 23, 2008, she sounded panicked. “I… I don’t know if this is an emergency, but it could be,” she told the 911 operator. Carol was breathing heavily. “My girlfriend didn’t come home last night.” She immediately rephrased…
flickr.com Madison Keys, 14, of Boca Raton Sports Illustrated has an interesting piece this week on 14 American teenagers who have “already found their places in the sun” but have promise to become the next generation of superstar athletes. Two of those teens are 14-year-olds from South Florida: Tennis phenom…
The NFL has a lot of hate-able wide receivers. Liberty City product, Chad Ochocinco (former Chad Johnson) is not one of them. A brief background: Three years ago, as Chad Johnson, he declared a new nickname for himself, based on his Cincinnati Bengals jersey number: Ocho Cinco (no, that isn’t…
Having romantic problems? A Pompano Beach man has just what you’ve been looking for… That is, if you’ve been looking for “easy girls” or “live ass hoes” or women he says he and his friends have hooked up with recently. The video above, posted to YouTube by J’Quan Kabal, shows…
The metropolitan daily papers in South Florida continue to awkwardly avoid mentioning race when describing criminal suspects on the loose, seemingly without consideration for whether doing so might actually aid in apprehending some of them. I wrote about a few examples of this two weeks ago, but the practice continues. In a…
[jump] This originally appeared on New Times letterhead, addressed to his local residence: August 14, 2008 Dear Mr. Nielsen, I’m a reporter with New Times, the local weekly newspaper. I’ve been a fan of yours for some time now and I’ve wanted to write to you for a while. I…
But the appearance was still “an absolute success.” The Coral Springs man who spent 20 years writing his self-published epic poem says Coral Springs Mayor Scott Brook mentioned ahead of time that he might show up at the local Waldenbooks last weekend to see the local writer in person at a book…
Live greyhound racing in New Hampshire ended swiftly this week with a new state bill that allows the two tracks there to have simulcast betting without having to run dogs on the premises. Similar bills have been proposed in the Florida Legislature each of the past three years, but none…
flickr.com Malcolm Gladwell at a lecture in Chicago. If you have a major problem with free media, please send cash or check before reading the rest of this post. In the beginning of Malcolm Gladwell’s piece in the current New Yorker, he sounds as if he might be mocking Jim Moroney,…
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a biologically male food server in Boca who claim to be fired from Carrabba’s Italian Grill for being too flamboyant. Alexis — as she prefers to be called — has breasts, long hair, and the (surgically altered) facial structure of a woman. She…
[jump] Pat Macabi, owner of Macabi Cigar Bar in Fort Lauderdale, has mixed feelings on the new laws. While Macabi is pleased cigars aren’t being taxed like “dirty cigarettes,” he says the system is too convoluted and confusing for retailers. “But they’re right not to tax cigar smokers as much,” he…
flickr.com This is a bit of a sensitive subject, so I’ll try to be careful. Though there are many purposes to news media, most people will agree that one of them is certainly to help protect the public — sometimes by exposing public dangers or injustices, sometimes by alerting the…
[jump] Sossen says he thought this must have been some mistake, some technical glitch. “I didn’t even enter any kind of PIN number or anything.” Still curious, he found an old Wachovia deposit slip from another friend with whom he shares a safety deposit box (so he has her social…
flickr.com Obama has game, but can he beat MV3? When the president says he wants you to come over to play some hoops, you go. Especially if you’re a gold-medal-winning NBA champion who comes from the same neighborhood in Chicago. Dwyane Wade will meet with Obama in Washington, D.C., for…
If maps with red don’t convince you global warming is bad, maybe money will do it. It’s trendy to go green these days. Fashionable to recycle, not waste water or litter, and help keep the planet what we like to call “inhabitable.” But a new study from the University of California at…
[jump] “He applied as Scott,” Tiffany says. “He was hired as Scott. Everything was Scott. Then as soon as he started, he wanted to go by a different name. We asked him not to introduce himself to guests as Alexis. We didn’t want guests to feel awkward.” Asked if Alexis…
I asked Grey how she was able to balance a relationship with her work in adult film…
Flickr.com Like air guitar, but with different fake instruments. But no air sex–that’s the worst of all. And right now South Florida is effectively air-sex celebate. (Don’t get me started on the air-religious groups.) What is this “air sex,” you ask? “It’s a lot like air guitar, but replacing the…
Photo by Tara Nieuwesteeg There were people dressed up like characters from videogames, horror movies, animes, and all sorts of other things. They came from as far away Europe to worship at the altar of all things videogame, meet B-movie legend Bruce Campbell, and compete in this year’s cosplay contest. And the…
