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Trump's Palm Beach Mansion Is Haunted by Financial Crime

By Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock
May 14, 2019

In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law. Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily...
South Florida's Notorious Southern Air Connected to Zimbabwe Plane Mystery

By Penn Bullock
Feb 23, 2016

On Feb. 14, an unmarked cargo plane touched down from Munich at the international airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, for refueling on its way to South Africa. Ground workers noticed something strange: rust-colored streaks along one side of the all-white fuselage. When the door to the compartment was popped open, a...
Lost in Translation

By Penn Bullock
Oct 13, 2011

Lend Me a Tenor is a Tony-winning, screwball comedy from the '80s that incorporates tranquilizer and blackface. Let me explain. Legendary tenor Tito Morelli is slated to play Othello in Cleveland. Before the show, his wife mistakes an autograph-seeking fan in the makeup room's closet for Morelli's lover and leaves...
Knockdown, Dragout

By Penn Bullock
Oct 6, 2011

A fresh crop of drag queens and kings are hitting the scene in Wilton Manors in search of a throne. For ten weeks, they've been in drag boot camp, honing their struts (and tucks?) and primping under the intense tutelage of Twat LaRouge, a fierce, bald, Ursula-like figure, and Chocolatta,...
Art Imitates Horror

By Penn Bullock
Sep 29, 2011

The Alien franchise got its distinctive aesthetic from a Swiss surrealist artist, H.R. Giger. His paintings gave the alien its drooling, multijawed, angry-lobster look, and Giger later won an Academy Award for his work on visual effects. Art inspired a scary movie. Now scary movies are inspiring art at the...

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