For folks in a low-income section of Hollywood, it’s hard to pass up a chance to make $50 — even if it means standing outside in 95-degree heat for 12 hours holding up a campaign sign. And that, say sources in South Hollywood, is the offer being dangled by Broward…
A Weston-based company called Smoking Everywhere wanted an executive who could go to battle against the FDA and U.S. Customs, which had teamed up to ban the import of e-cigarettes. But by hiring Ray Story in 2008, Smoking Everywhere may have got more than it bargained for. Story — who…
No one will get her to officially admit that she’s enjoying the controversy that has blanketed Broward Judge Peter Skolnik’s reelection campaign; but make no mistake about it, Debra Steinsaltz is more than a casual observer.”I have no comment about that,” Steinsaltz said when I asked her about Skolnik’s campaign…
In the weeks that followed the announcement last September that Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher had been busted for taking bribes in an FBI sting, several of her colleagues got anxious. So did the school district administration. “The FBI was asking a lot of questions of members of the…
For a man who claims to be a victim, Stephen Smith has behaved very strangely. The webmaster seized the domains of Broward Circuit Court Judge Peter Skolnik, then accused the judge of cheating him out of his work product — yet Smith has refused to meet with a campaign activist…
All dogs may go to heaven, but Mark Stern doesn’t think dogs should go next to the $20,000 space he purchased at an elite Boca Raton mausoleum.It’s just the most recent indignity to be visited on Stern in the 11 years since he first purchased a crypt in the Gardens,…
During a year when state and federal investigators have been circling the Broward County School Board, it seems as though every member of that ethically challenged outfit would have reason to keep a personal attorney close by. But only one school board member had the nerve to give her legal…
Being a fabulist is good, right? Like being fabulous? Because today’s Sun-Sentinel column by Jack Lunardi paints an otherwise unflattering portrait of this blog’s Allen West coverage. He writes:New Times blogger and leading nominee for the Stephen Glass Fabulist Award for 2010, Tom Francis, speculated last week that West was…
A Fort Lauderdale entrepreneur is looking for contestants who think they can fuck for a game show he calls So You Think You Can Fuck.That entrepreneur, adult filmmaker Dominic Ford, was inspired by the Fox network’s So You Think You Can Dance. That show’s already pretty gay. Ford’s idea: What…
The August 10 murder of John Bullock, a dog kennel owner from southern Mississippi, created well over 100 four-legged orphans, most of whom have made a soft landing at the Humane Society of Broward County. That shelter now has nearly as many miniature pinschers as Cruella de Vil had dalmatians.The…
On his MySpace page, Manny Periu introduces himself as “Bondsman 4 Life, Manny Team OUTLAW.” But that livelihood is in peril now that Manny’s been declared an outlaw himself.On Thursday, the bondsman was busted by Sunrise police on four counts of drug trafficking and charged on two separate counts of…
The Miami Beach woman known as the “Beauty Bandit” allegedly furnished a false identification to a Fort Lauderdale cosmetic surgeon in hopes of stealing the skin treatment she received last month, according to a news release by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.Maria Elizabeth Chrysson is the alleged Beauty Bandit’s real…
Mike Verdugo, the Hollywood cop who was fired by the department in 2009, has won a favorable ruling from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which during a meeting Thursday in Tampa heard the department’s case for why Verdugo should lose his certification.The official reason Verdugo was fired is because he…
It’s been just three weeks since Juice first introduced Claudia Castillo, the South Florida newcomer who vowed to go on 30 dates in August and to document them on a website, seeclaudiadate.com.Now she’s hit the big time: NBC6 did a segment on Castillo Thursday night. That video is after the…
Congressional candidate Allen West has entered the home stretch of his campaign against incumbent Democrat Ron Klein, but it appears he’s still finding time to unwind with the occasional Netflix DVD. Based on the speech he gave this week at the opening of his campaign in West Palm Beach, West has…
By next week, Broward County will be ruled by a new code of ethics thanks to a unanimous vote this past week by the county’s commission. But commissioners followed up that vote by moving to place a referendum on the ballot that, if passed, would significantly weaken ethical reform.Now Broward…
A local website designer, Stephen Smith, has filed a police report in which he accuses Broward Judge Peter B. Skolnik of cheating him out of his fee and a campaign volunteer of threatening murder. That looks like it won’t be the last police report. A volunteer with Skolnik’s campaign says the…
Senate candidate Jeff Greene has taken a beating in the national press this week for all the mayhem that has occurred aboard his 145-foot yacht, the Summerwind. Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson told Sports Illustrated that he spent one of the most debauched periods of his mega-debauched life aboard Greene’s yacht…
Having scrolled through the photos of Rush Limbaugh’s recent wedding at the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, I’m confused. Did he marry Elton John?Just look at them! How very open and unabashed they are about their man-love. Shoulders turned into each other — you don’t have to be a body-language expert…
Strogoff Prevot Jr. had two babysitters yesterday, but both his 16-year-old aunt and his 13-year-old aunt fell asleep, failing to notice that the 2-year-old boy had left his West Palm Beach home to wander the streets, according to a statement just released by the Boynton Beach Police Department.Prevot was found…
The Mike Verdugo case isn’t quite as simple as the Sun-Sentinel makes it sound. Nor is it as simple as the Miami Herald made it sound last January.Verdugo does not believe he was fired purely based on his having appeared in a gay erotic film prior to becoming a Hollywood…
In an email that Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger sent to campaign supporters late last night, she cheered the passage of an ethics reform package at a meeting just hours before and said that the possibility of being punished by her angry commission colleagues was a small price to pay…
