Hi Brittany. Congratulations on being enrolled in the Dreyfoos School of Arts in West Palm, where there is no history of violence. And congratulations for earning the distinction of having your painting showcased for the city’s inauguration celebration, which meant that you got to be on TV with Mayor Lois…
The South Florida housing market has been in quicksand so long that we almost forgot there might be a rock bottom. So let’s try to look at the bright side of this report from Denver, in which Greater Fort Lauderdale is singled out as the “riskiest” housing market of the…
Rambo, remember to text us about your weapons before you get to class.Oh, come on! Has it really come to this? The Broward School District is counting on students to text message security threats? From the article: But after the Nov. 12 shooting, Broward Superintendent Jim Notter — an avid…
Global freedom-hating menace Osama bin Laden has released a new album, and this one sounds like the others. Gaza, Jihad, path of God, Jews are mean, et cetera. Nothing you haven’t heard before. In fact, how does the most recent tape prove that The Pajama-ed one lives? Maybe I’m just…
Today Carl Weathers, who will be the 45th President of the United States, turned 61. I will celebrate this American holiday the way I do every Jan. 14: by pulling up my striped tube socks and watching the training scene from Rocky III. And no, there’s nothing wrong with a…
Quit flaunting your chin, harlot. You’re in Greater Tampa.Let’s not get too demoralized over the national media ridiculing our corruption, which is rampant, pervasive, ubiquitous and all-encompassing. It could be worse. We could be in Pinellas County, where county officials are scrambling to cover the naughty bits of beachgoers, lest…
See if you can find a silver lining for South Florida in these two reports in major national news magazines about Palm Beach. Newsweek’s Daniel Gross writes about how Bernard Madoff fleeced Palm Beach high society and Time declares the county to be The New Capital of Florida Corruption. Give…
At the top of the hour, baby-faced U.S. Rep Kendrick Meek, the Democrat from Miami, will announce his bid for the U.S. Senate in 2010 when Republican Sen. Mel Martinez steps down. Being the first from either party to declare, Meek’s given himself nearly two years to campaign.Which is a…
The following commercial has been getting lots of local airplay:So let me get this straight: You paid money to air a commercial informing me that you’ll change my pennies into dollars for free? Um, thanks, but now I feel guilty. How do you make a profit? Or pay your employees?…
We get it, Earl Rynerson. You would rather talk about issues facing Fort Lauderdale than be known as merely The Gay Candidate.Your predicament reminds me of this guy who didn’t want to be known as merely The Black Candidate, but when the November election rolled around, post-election polls suggested race…
Eli Kavon is an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University who lectures on Jewish history and is a frequent contributor to The Jerusalem Post. I spoke with Kavon recently to get his perspective on the conflict that’s erupted between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and which shows no…
Last night I followed a craving for fish fillets into the deepest recesses of my freezer. (Do NOT make fun — we are poor writers over here; in fact, some of us survive mainly on tuna fish sandwiches). Now, look at the image below. Do you see the writing on…
Despite generating a bunch of Oscar buzz immediately before its release, Frost/Nixon is not a good movie. It is not even a good Ron Howard movie, which is saying something. As the critics figured out pretty quick, “The Nixon Interviews” were a journalistic, not an historic, event, and not even…
Florida sports history was made Saturday night, and you probably missed it. The state’s first-ever professional lacrosse game was played at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, between the Toronto Rock and the New York Titans. Rock star (heh) Blaine Manning won the game in dramatic fashion, breaking a 14-14 tie with…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Weston Democrat (not to be confused with the Westin Diplomat), has been named the vice chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which is a long way of saying she’s in a better position to get us more stuff. In…
On the New Times newsroom’s Wall o’ Deviance, beneath photographs of long-gone staffers cavorting with strippers, you will find the red-white-and-blue 2008 calendar of Rudy Giuliani, which he modestly called “Countdown to Victory.” The calendar warns of a slow march toward a dystopian American future in which 9/11 replaces Christmas…
Images courtesy of www.4yacht.comGiga-what? Giga-yacht! It’s for sporting men who feel crowded on their 180-foot “super-yacht” and whose claustrophobia still flares up on a 220-foot-plus “mega-yacht.” That’s a gigayacht pictured above. I had to shrink the graphic, but if you look closely on the left side you’ll see a helicopter,…
Mmm… waffle fries! And chicken sandwiches with pickles! This Thursday, a new Chick-Fil-A is opening in Lauderhill (8190 W. Commercial Blvd.), and the company is passing out coupons for free meals to the first 100 adult customers in line at 6 a.m. At first, we thought this was just a…
For me and for a great many other reporters, the most loathsome chore in journalism is the dreaded “man on the street” interview, which is why I both admire and pity the Palm Beach Post’s Frank Cerabino, who every week ventures out of the cool fluorescent confines of his newsroom…
Today we learned that Florida is exporting guns for crimes in other states, and it appears Fort Lauderdale is also exporting armed robbers for crimes in other Florida cities.Three Fort Lauderdale men are among a foursome arrested in connection with the distinctly Grinch-ian crime of knocking over a credit union…
In Deerfield Beach, they don’t do Democrats and Republicans. Rather, you’ve got the Indicted Party, which nominated Al Capellini, who resigned as mayor last month after corruption charges were filed against him. And you’ve got the Nearly Indicted Party, which recently chose Jean Robb as its nominee.Robb was mayor from…
When I first saw Avenue Q, on Broadway in the summer of 2005, I thought it was a perfect show. I also thought it was too of its moment to last. Avenue is a topical piece, and I assumed that it, like most things topical, had a sell-by date. But…
