LENNARRRD! LENARRRRRD! SLAMMAAAAHHH!! ALONZO MOURNING WITH THE STUFFFAHHH!! Simply the greatest calls in Miami Heat broadcast history. The man and legend who made those calls, Dr. Jack Ramsay, passed away in his sleep Sunday night at age 89 after a long bout with cancer. Ramsay coached the Portland Trailblazers to…
We probably should have seen this coming. In the last year, thanks to open rules about what can and can not be displayed in the area, the rotunda at the Florida Capitol has become contested ground for a grab bag of worldviews and opinions. Besides your regular nativity scene, this…
The grievance hearing tomorrow in the case of Stephen McCulloch, the “dolphin gurn” fired by FAU, has been preceded by wrangling over procedure. The school has agreed to allow McCulloch to bring witnesses and cross-examine the school’s witnesses but has declared the hearing a closed-door affair. See also: – Dolphin…
Back in 2008, an elderly woman’s undiscovered body had decomposed so badly inside her apartment that it exploded. Fluid from the ruptured corpse began to seep through the floor and into the apartment below, which led the owner of that unit to sue her insurance company, claiming that it needed…
David Benjamin, the former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy accused of accepting more than $20,000 from convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, was charged Friday with accepting that financial help in exchange for using his authority to protect and aid Rothstein. Former BSO deputy Jeff Poole was also charged. Federal prosecutors filed criminal…
As Hurricane season approaches, we’re getting more and more sophisticated in the way storms are tracked. And while we’re still waiting for those Hurricane Tracker Sharks we were promised, there is some pretty cool news coming out of the National Hurricane Center. Staring this season, the NHC will be displaying…
Former Miami Dolphin great Earl Morrall has passed away, sources close to the Morrall family has told New Times. Morall, 79, had been in ill health for some time and was in hospice care in his Fort Lauderdale home. As Bob Griese’s backup with the Miami Dolphins, Morrall became the…
The many opponents of legalized marijuana in Florida have come and gone, defeated with facts and science and the power of the people. But, like a ferocious hungry hydra looking to devour the movement at every turn, opposition continues to rear its long, scaly talons at preventing medical weed from…
Street art has been appearing in Broward County news this week. Earlier, we told you about downtown Hollywood’s upcoming mural project expansion. Up next is Saturday’s opening of Inside FACES, at FAT Village’s MAC Fine Art Gallery. In case you missed it, MAC is that lime-green building near the train…
We’ve already written about how, according to a recent study, the Florida Legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 1.27 million low-income Floridians will result in as many as six otherwise avoidable deaths a day in the Sunshine State. Now we’ve come across another study about the consequences…
It’s one thing to lose your beloved cat. It’s another to find Fluffy in a state of… uh… incompletion. Up in Central Florida, one neighborhood is being rocked by a spree of dismembered animals. And you know how the old saying goes: One cat cut in half is just bad…
With the Legislature working on laying out harsher punishments on hit-and-run suspects and the justice system cracking down on this guy, it’s time once again to strap on the helmet, grab your bike, and hit up the streets of Fort Lauderdale with your brothers and sisters in bicycling to celebrate…
This week, our cover story in the print edition of New Times dispenses a ten-step program on how you can jump in on the medical marijuana craze that is expected to hit Florida soon and become a pot mogul. Or, not. Writer Francisco Alvarado went out and did all the…
Back in December, Axel Esteban Inostroza crashed his girlfriend’s black 2003 Mustang into a bicyclist in Fort Lauderdale and proceeded to drive for two miles with the cyclist lodged in the car’s rear window. Inostroza then drove into the woods and dumped the cyclist — who was still alive –…
Crime is down in Broward County. This, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. BSO saw drops in crime throughout 2013. Broward saw a 13 percent drop in violent crimes, and while there were a few more adults arrested, juvenile arrests were down almost…
We’ve all been there: You’re riding your bike, walking on the street, or simply driving and out of nowhere some South Florida speed demon almost runs you down in his or her car. According to unfortunate statistics from the state, it’s more likely now than ever that the offending driver…
To some neighborhoods of Fort Lauderdale, Larry Daughtery was known as the local ice cream man. Yesterday he was introduced to jurors as an ice-cold murderer. If what Broward prosecutors are saying is true, Daughtery’s tale is like a real-life and way-less-campy version of the Clint Howard flick Ice Cream…
The Miami Heat took a 2-0 lead in its first-round matchup against the Charlotte Bobcats with a 101-97 victory Wednesday night. While there are plenty of game recaps to peruse, we at the Pulp like to dig deeper and get into some specific stuff you may or may not have…
Vico Confino is a husky 81-year-old hell-raiser with a thick Brooklyn accent and an outsized presence — slicked-back thin white hair, piercing blue eyes, leathery South Florida skin — that seem cut straight from a Sopranos casting. Confino tosses F-bombs at waiters over bad service. He wears four fake teeth…
In the summer of 2011, Boynton Beach cop David Britto — a former Marine and 2010 Officer of the Year — was arrested on charges of possession of and conspiring to traffic methamphetamine. Authorities suspected him of running a drug ring with several other men. But Britto famously cut off…
Face it: The glam days of air travel are dead and buried. Now, it’s $50 for that carry-on, $6.75 for water from the cart — plus tax — though attitude from overworked flight attendants is gratis. According to a lawsuit filed in South Florida, one air carrier went overkill with…
When news broke last week that Senior Writer Michael E. Miller had won the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi award for nondeadline writing, it was just the cherry on top of an unparalleled year of national prize-winning for Miami New Times. Miller’s award comes for his feature story “Champ,” which tells…
