Pine Crest Preparatory School is 49 acres of manicured lawns in northeastern Fort Lauderdale. Behind the five-tier parking garage is a fountain that sprays water across a pond and a running track that meanders through groves of black olive trees. There are tennis courts and a newly renovated boathouse, where…
Forget politics, corruption, and crime. This week, it’s about sports. You and I have the wild-card Marlins in the playoffs and the Dolphins coming off two big wins. That’s right, Jack McKeon is smoking, Jeff Conine is barking, and Ricky is running. It’s too sweet, but think of this: If…
Bushwhacked in Fort Lauderdale: I agree with Tailpipe (September 25) that forcing out Fort Lauderdale City Manager Floyd Johnson looked like a city commission-led conspiracy. And, it now looks like the total cost of blaming Floyd Johnson for the commissioners’ collective inability to manage the city’s finances will be $308,875…
Davie. A throwback. A town that time forgot. But a place that real estate developers, those uncanny visionaries, know all too well. Now that the home front consists of an eighth of an acre or less in South Florida, it would seem that cowboys would have nowhere to roam. Confined…
Everyone stares at Kenny 5 in public. Resistance is futile. Uncommonly handsome in a rock-star way, Kenny’s bright brown eyes are as piercing as collapsing stars. His sturdy arms are completely sleeved in tattoos. His not-quite-black hair is a sculpted thicket of pointy angles and hazardous cliffs. Today, he’s wearing…
For almost a year, the Broward State Attorney’s Office investigated Broward County Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant for violating the statutes that govern her office. Late last month, investigators concluded that there had been misconduct: not by Oliphant but by the Broward County Commission. Oliphant may have been guilty of…
Due to the pirate nature of his radio show, DJ Showtime does a little bunny-hopping around the FCC. So last Sunday, he’s on 89.7 FM. On Monday, he’s nowhere to be found. Tuesday, around lunchtime, he’s bounced over to 89.1 FM and is playing the latest Trina single. She’s rapping…
As Hurricane Isabel was snapping branches and tossing lawn furniture around (and killing 35 people) in North Carolina and Virginia last week, Minor Tropical Disturbance Wesley Clark blew into Hollywood. A compact man with iron-gray hair, Clark, a former four-star general with big national ambitions, thrilled a crowd of supporters…
You’re baby boomer and beyond. A divorcée with a fat bank account ’cause you knew when to pull out of the market in the ’90s. But when you pulled your old bell-bottoms from your college trunk a couple of months ago and the fit wasn’t even close, you started doing…
Another kid who should be free: I am delighted that I share Rebecca Meiser’s opinion as expressed in the September 18 article (“Rise Up for Recess”). It is a shame, and I know from personal experience that my child, being an ADHD child who is personally acquainted with Dr. Marvin…
It was the Friday before school started, and 10-year-old Nicklaus Barbery was understandably nervous. The soon-to-be fifth-grader took forever selecting his outfit: knee-length Phat Farm jeans, a light-blue T-shirt picturing a Cadillac Escalade, and his new Phat Farm sneakers with blue and white laces. His mother, Nancy, sighed when she…
A couple of years from now, if there’s a guy named Wesley Clark in the Oval Office, South Floridians will be able to look back to a fateful evening in September 2003 and say it all started — at least the Broward County part of it — at Shooters Waterfront…
Hank is prickly but ahead of the game: I just read Wyatt Olson’s excellent article on Hank Asher (“The Matrix: Unloaded”) in the September 11 issue. It was very well-written. To my eye, he presented the first fact-based and judgment-free article on Hank. I worked with Hank from the early…
The sages of pop culture past, Salt ‘n Pepa, once said, “Let’s talk about sex, baby/Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be.” Notice the comprehensive scope of their entreaty, which encompasses both the “good” things and the “bad” things that sexin’ may bring…
The Sunset Lounge had just finished serving its last drinks late one night in June 2001 when Officer James Megathlin parked his patrol car around the corner. At Henrietta Avenue and Eighth Street, the Sunset is dead center in West Palm Beach’s downtown ghetto. Clubgoers began spilling out, mixing on…
The tech bubble had not yet burst as Hank Asher strode up to the dais in early October 1999 at the Hyatt Regency in Fort Lauderdale. Ambition and high expectations permeated the audience of more than 300 who had packed the banquet hall to kick off the so-called DevCon ’99,…
Kevin Love strolls into Phillips & Grooms Shoe Repair & Cleaning with a thick roll of bills buried in the pocket of his black dress slacks and a need. Tall, big, built, Love has the kind of self-confidence that leaves a wake of wow wherever he goes. Despite the scorching…
Two years after the attacks on America, the populace still doesn’t know the truth about terror ringleader Mohamed Atta’s entry into the country. It was illegal. Immigration agents shouldn’t have admitted the Egyptian national at Miami International Airport on January 10, 2001. Records show he was allowed to enter as…
God speaks in film: Regarding Susan Eastman’s article, “Our Lady of Hollywood,” in the September 4 issue, I too have visited Rosa Lopez’s home. Many people visit expecting to see miracles, for there are many who need to see in order to believe. My faith, however, is strong enough where…
Here’s one for the penny pinchers. That’s right, grab your $2 pair of Walgreens glasses off the secondhand coffee table ’cause you’re gonna want to read this: a cheap drink lineup that’ll keep you buzzing all week. One thing we all know when we go out is that we’re gonna…
The strippers at Fantasy Lounge go two dances on-stage, two off. The first number is the warm-up, the second is the money shot. About 5 p.m., a slim-hipped dancer named Alexis loosens her bra straps and lowers her pants below the buttocks, then suddenly, as a loud techno-screech reaches crescendo,…
Gloria Martinez called in sick this past July 12. A blood clot in her leg hurt so badly that, for the second week in a row, she couldn’t get out of bed. The 45-year-old Dominican mother of two feared that her health would force her to quit her weekend job…
