A Baltimore Raven defense led by two former University of Miami stars, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed, thrashed our spunky Dolphins yesterday, 27-9. I could’ve sworn the Ravens were playing with 14 men on defense, but I’ll have to go back to the tape to make sure. At any rate,…
An art teacher shot herself in front of Largo Middle School last week, leaving a 4-page suicide note that lambasted the principal.Wage slaves are hurting everywhere, but it’s really, really bad in the schools. For every Linda Joy Taylor, there are countless teachers dealing with their depression in a less…
On that weekend in October when the Baltimore Ravens were in town to play the Dolphins, purple jerseys mobbed Fort Lauderdale Beach. I encountered about 100 fans boarding buses at the Yankee Clipper the morning of that game. There was no mistaking the ruddy faces and rowdy moods: These Ravens…
Imagine a poster like this hanging in Jim Naugle’s old office.Here at New Times, we’re porn-positive. (I mean, have you seen what lurks in our back pages?) In this Age of Tolerance, it’s high time that a big, Democratic city like Fort Lauderdale have a candidate who’s open and unashamed…
The big story today is that justice appears to have caught up to the driver of the truck that killed wheelchair-bound Kenneth Scotto Sunday night in Dania Beach. The Bad Samaritan’s name is Hugo Daniel Detteren and this is the truck model.But fate was unkind to a Good Samaritan, too…
100,000 is one of those magic numbers. It’s the summit of a classic Eighties game show. It’s a milestone that reminds you to get that car tuned up. And if you’re a state whose prison population has just reached that number, it means you’re running out of room in the…
It’s a good bet that whoever stole the statue next to Bernard Madoff’s Palm Beach pool won’t be able sell it for more than he’s already lost to the alleged investment fraudster. But that probably wasn’t the point. It was to give Madoff a taste of his own medicine. A…
Poor, poor Peter Boinis. He’s the restaurateur who somehow (*cough-campaign donations-cough*) convinced a few Deerfield Beach commissioners that it was a good idea to lease him its pier for just $150,000 per year so that he could build a restaurant there. A burst of city activism derailed that plan in…
Just before the game that would decide whether the Dolphins or Jets went to the NFL Playoffs, Jets QB Brett Favre delivered this rousing pep talk to his teammates: “Hey, if it works out, it works out. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.” It didn’t. I haven’t seen so many treats…
So maybe pouring a bucket of cold water on the Super Bowl hopes of Miami Dolphin-dom wasn’t the most sensitive holiday message. Lest I forget “the reason for the season” I offer this tale of holiday generosity. A rags to riches man from Canton, Ohio, who during the worst of…
Nope. Fact is, this team isn’t nearly as good as its record suggests. Overrated? Maybe, but you can’t really over-rate a team that spent the previous season flirting with a record for professional football futility. So let’s try this: If next week the Dolphins defeat the New York Jets, then…
A wide receiver adept at catching passes in traffic isn’t very good at driving a car in it. At least not according to a Tamarac woman who says the suspended New York Giant and Lighthouse Point resident Plaxico Burress rear-ended her while he was driving on the Florida Turnpike. Compared…
This past weekend, Florida’s First Lady made her first public appearance and she didn’t sound nervous at all. Asked what it’s like to be First Lady, Mrs. Crist said: “I love it. It’s a tremendous honor and privilege, and I enjoy obviously being with my wonderful husband, always.” She described…
The Weston Democrat and minority leader of the Florida House has had a hellish holiday season. A week ago, Sands opened Monday’s edition of the Palm Beach Post to a story about how he allegedly used Democrats’ willingness to give to the Florida Democratic Party as a basis for deciding…
By now, almost nothing can shock us about Hollywood (Florida) news. Not a dead body turning up in a Federal Highway hotel. Been there. Not a dirty cop, nor a public official hit with criminal indictment. Been there and there. Nothing would have shocked us…except this. And this.Yep, it’s good…
On Wednesday I met Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at Jaxson’s Ice Cream Parlor on U.S. 1 in Dania Beach for a wide-ranging discussion — including my paranoid delusions about the sinister deal-cutting that must take place when voters aren’t watching.The congresswoman insists that she has never thrown footwear at…
Hey everybody. I’ve been away (in Jupiter. No, the planet!) and now I’m trying to find out how my $50 billion investment is going. Except the web site of my broker Bernie Madoff seems to be down. Something about a court-ordered liquidation? That doesn’t sound good.Ha, ha, just kidding. I…
Now that Joe Paterno’s landed a brand new three-year contract, just a few days before his 82nd birthday, the pressure’s on Florida State’s dad-gum head coach Bobby Bowden to get a four-year contract.The two old coots are currently running 1-2 in career victories. JoePa has 383. Bowden has 381. The…
J.D. (second from left) and Katelynn (wincing in the middle) are already stars off-screen.MTV probably has a cash money prize for which ever Real World cast member stirs up the most shit before the show actually begins (sigh, Real World Brooklyn debuts January 7). If so, our two South Floridians…
Oh, what a thrill it is to see an envelope with the FPL logo sticking out of one’s holiday stocking! Because it’s no fun being robbed in one fell swoop, Bernie Madoff-style. I prefer a nice, slow bleed — or at least some Chinese water torture. Well, let’s start with…
Those socialites are a competitive bunch — and what is a wedding good for if not to rub one’s success in the nose of one’s rivals. Am I right, ladies?Or that’s my theory, anyway, on the gamesmanship between former New York City socialite Carole Rome and current NYC socialite Jill…
Howdy Ho! If the Christmas poo gets too close to the Heat this team’s gonna blow.The Miami Heat need forward Michael Beasley to light up the scoreboard if they’re to have any chance of making the NBA Playoffs, which is what makes this report on Beasley’s recent bout with the…
