You thought you were so “aware” with your pink ribbon for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Where’s your purple ribbon for Domestic Violence Awareness Month? Did it fall off while you were beating your spouse, hypocrite? October is Spina Bifida Awareness Month. And since you’re not aware of what spina…
Programming Note: Beginning today, a new weekly series, Sex on the Beach, chronicling South Florida’s libidinous ways. If you don’t swing, you can probably guess one of the obstacles to the lifestyle: Men who want to have sex with a wife that’s hotter than the wife they’re screwing now. Swinglifestyle.com, a…
Reading this post on Pulp about how Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter sprinted 400 yards to the home of lobbyist Michael Moskowitz, I tried to imagine the scene that must have taken place in Moskowitz’s Parkland home. And it conjured up the above scene from Michael Clayton. Substitute a dented Jaguar…
We were all beaming with pride this past weekend when a Deerfield Beach company, Big Top Cupcake, unveiled a colossal confection: a 1,316-pound cupcake that even had a big heart, raising awareness for Think Pink Rocks, a breast cancer charity.But the reason this is a lame record is that it’s…
Ana Mateo, a 29-year-old woman from Cooper City charged with sex abuse based on a Facebook dialogue she had with a 15-year-old relative in Illinois in 2007, has been convicted by a Will County, Illinois, jury. The Facebook posts were discovered by the boy’s mother in June 2008. The victim…
The dawn brings a fresh batch of crazy to Broward and Palm Beach:At the risk of sounding like a broken record, more political figures have been arrested, including Ed Portner, running for mayor of Coral Springs Tamarac, for pulling a gun on daughter Stacy Ritter, mayor of Broward County. In…
That’s the living room on the right — not bad for a quarter million, eh? You can see a bunch more photos at the realtor’s site, here. Every week, Realtor.com puts together a list of the nation’s five most-searched-for homes that fall within the median price of an American home…
Who says the Florida Panhandle is not a culturally diverse place? Certainly not the 22-year-old Mongolian man who had the distinct cultural honor of being beaten by a pack of Ukrainians who then sped away in a Japanese-made truck. Why, Fort Walton Beach is like the redneck U.N.!Here’s the report…
Charlie Crist continues to lead in polls, but former House Speaker Marco Rubio has all the momentum in the battle for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. During a quarter when he appeared on the cover of the National Review, dominated straw polls, and received high praise from GOP luminaries…
Ha! That’s Vincent “Big Pussy” Pastore, the Sopranos actor who lives in Coral Springs. His pistachio commercial is much better than the one by Levi Johnston, which is getting all the attention this week. It’s after the jump…
As the state’s best defensive back, Matt Elam from Palm Beach Gardens Dwyer must have assumed that when he gave his verbal commitment to the University of Florida, the defending champs would stop courting other defensive backs.But Elam surely knows that four DBs are on the field at once –…
Thanks Rob. But for the animal protection activists, I rather doubt that hearing about the shark meat being split among 20 friends is going to be any comfort…
The Obama administration has plans for kinder, gentler immigration holding centers to be located in nursing homes and hotels. This new generation of facilities will be less like a prisons, more like the immigration facility in Pompano Deerfield Beach:The New York Times interviewed John Morton, the assistant secretary of Immigration…
The news from around South Florida:Following a winning, Fredi Gonzalez will stay as the Marlins manager, even though the team failed to make the playoffs. Other parts of the coaching staff will be reshuffled, though. [Miami Herald]Hospital officials are wrestling with the question of exactly why Broward General Medical Center…
My therapist says it might help to share this with readers. So here goes nothing: Saturday night, for one horrible moment, I looked into the eyes of Ann Coulter.I’m not sure why she was roaming the streets of West Palm Beach around midnight, but it was a full moon.I was…
You all had a chuckle when you heard how the 99-cent store in Lauderdale Lakes was robbed. But think of the sheer desperation that must precede a caper this pathetic. The thieves must have been destitute. Also, think of how a basic math class could have prevented this crime. First…
Florida football fans may remember Randy Grimes, the long-time offensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneer who retired in 1992 after a 10-year career. This week, Grimes is back in Florida, but it’s a less than triumphant return. The opening paragraph in the New York Daily News story:It had been…
The New York Times is reporting that the human body’s ability to cannibalize its own cells is a major factor in maintaining human health. In short:Increasing our body’s ability to self-destruct may, paradoxically, let us live longer.And no local bodies self-destructed as spectacularly as Ken Jenne, Beverly Gallagher, Joe Eggelletion,…
Joe Zada, the alleged fraudster who owned a home in Wellington and a patron of that town’s equestrian scene, told a Detroit newspaper that he expects to receive an enormous payment that will allow him to resolve outstanding debts to such investors as hockey star Sergei Federov.From an article in…
