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Power to the Pudge!

Get ready for another Marlins dismantling

By Tristram Korten
Oct 23, 2003

The series is over. The Marlins have had their best year since they won the 1997 World Series. Fans know this phenomenal achievement can mean only one thing: It's time for Marlins management to trade away the team's most talented players for a profit. This is an unspoken rule but...
Diver Down

Pipin Ferreras and his wife, Audrey, challenged the deadly sea. They lost.

By Tristram Korten
Mar 6, 2003

The most noticeable thing about Francisco Ferreras is his chest. He is otherwise an imposing presence -- tall, muscular arms, broad back, shaved head bronzed by the sun. But it is the chest that impresses. It is prodigiously expansive, but not in the way bodybuilders become musclebound with bulk. Ferreras'...
One Live Jew

After years in the shadow of Luther Campbell, Joe Weinberger has emerged with his own label -- and a tainted reputation

By Tristram Korten
Aug 10, 2000

The owner of the hip-hop label Lil' Joe Records pulls up to his northwest Miami-Dade offices most mornings in a true player's ride, an aquamarine Jaguar S-2000. He wears the right accessories for his role. A diamond-crusted Rolex jangles from his right wrist. Fat gold rings glisten on both hands...
Assail on the Fun Ship

Carnival doesn't just neglect passengers who claim to be victims of sexual assault. It attempts to shut them up.

By Tristram Korten
Feb 3, 2000

After four days of looping around the Caribbean, the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Fascination eased into its berth at Port Canaveral, Florida, on the morning of July 23, 1998. Legions of flushed, sunburned tourists descended the gangplank, luxuriating, no doubt, in the last few hours of their tropical escape before...
Fight Club

Chris Paciello, the dangerous darling of the South Florida nightlife set, has a reputation for fisticuffs. And Mob ties.

By Tristram Korten
Dec 23, 1999

Saturday the new nightclub Liquid Room opened on West Palm Beach's Clematis Street. It was another success for 28-year-old Chris Paciello. He already owned two of the most decadently popular clubs on Miami Beach, Liquid and Bar Room, along with a permanently in-vogue restaurant there, Joia. He had become his...

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