For nearly two years, Aventura widow Regina Greenhill expressed nothing but praise for her former aide, Bridget Garcia. Bridget, a certified nursing assistant, had treated the 87-year-old Regina with great care, spending every day of the week cooking her meals, driving her around town, and allowing her to live an…
The story of Tillie Tooter has gripped the nation. Stranded for three days in her wrecked car, lodged in a mangrove tree beneath the freeway, the 83-year-old grandmother survived on rainwater sucked from socks and tough-as-nails resolve. Tooter returned to her Century Village condo an octogenarian heroine, but even as…
We knew that the Daily Business Review was in trouble when a letter arrived from its chairman and editor, Edward Wasserman, pleading with us to subcribe. The letter was actually an advertisement for the exceedingly dull paper. “You can find your next customers with South Florida’s most accurate business leads.”…
One Mad Person of Undetermined Religion Using the word Jew is not anti-Semitism: Wow. I complain that you called Joe Weinberger “One Live Jew,” so you then call me “One Livid Jew” (Letters, August 17)! How can you be so presumptuous as to postulate my religion? Don’t you think that…
Regina Greenhill is a wealthy Jewish widow. A stroke victim, she lives alone in a condominium tower, just across a parking lot from Aventura Mall. Bridget Garcia is a working-class black native of the U.S. Virgin Islands. For nearly two years, Bridget worked as Regina’s private nurse, spending up to…
Clif Lirette sits in his house trailer a long way from ordinary 21st-century life and watches his dogs, Butch and Rock ‘n’ Roll, travel quickly past his open door toward the highway. Lirette lurches to his feet and moves to the door, an old man whose systemwide physical infirmities veil…
Cops need and deserve intense scrutiny. And this paper is here to give it to them. We give the police so much power over our persons and property that a rigorous examination of their actions seems necessary. The news media has played an important role in this scrutiny of abuses…
Jewish rap record company owners are a dime a dozen: I realize that with the selection of Sen. Joe Lieberman to the Democratic presidential ticket, it may now be fashionable to get the word Jew, or Jewish, or even Judaism, into print. But the headline “One Live Jew” (Tristram Korten,…
Robert Rodriguez had to go to the bathroom. The urge was inconvenient on this late June afternoon, the first day Rodriguez returned to work following an 11-week suspension. Inconvenient because Rodriguez was not on an allotted break, when he might leave the building and walk to his nearby apartment. Inconvenient…
Scrawled in green, the cursive Stein Mart logo stands out against the coral stucco of the strip mall. This is Boca Raton, the pink city, so color coordination is a chief concern. Inside there are reptile-print slippers in turquoise, silver, and ruby. Pastel aromatherapy candles are stacked on a table,…
It seems the layoff of 50 people who used to work for the Sun-Sentinel Community News Group recently (See Undercurrents, August 10) has caused some concern among staffers at the daily paper. It also appears that there’s reason to be concerned: The smaller daily papers in the Tribune Co. group…
Clever takeoff should have been taken off: The article “One Live Jew” (Tristram Korten, August 10) was not without interest. But the religious affiliation of Joe Weinberger was not even remotely central to the facts reported. To put on the cover page in large caps “ONE LIVE JEW” and then…
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…
Lori Parrish is a woman who likes to use the phone. So much so, in fact, that her cellular phone bills alone might bankrupt a person of lesser means than the long-time Broward County commissioner and Swap Shop executive. On her pair of omnipresent cellular phones alone, she routinely racks…
A number of Cubans are gathering money and want political change! You might assume this is happening in Miami and their main goal is the overthrow of Fidel Castro, along with the return of Elián. You would be wrong. The group is the Broward American Cuban Political Action Committee, and…
Felicia Armstrong knew her son Wesley was a troubled kid. He’d been that way for most of his ten years. At age three Wesley was kicked out of a day care center for biting other children. Two years later he went on Ritalin after a therapist diagnosed him with attention…
Amid the glad-handing, backslapping, speechifying, and pamphleteering that is the monthly meeting of the Pembroke Pines Democratic Club sits Lionel Stewart, candidate for Broward County sheriff, muttering under his breath. Every candidate who showed up tonight is allotted two minutes of podium time to preach to the choir about why…
A kosher café in Sheridan Hills offers its Thursday-evening patrons the smell of tomatoes and garlic simmering from the kitchen and an Old World décor of dark woods and lace curtains. The menu has its fair share of bistro delicacies, but the forty- to sixtysomething folks who fill the place…
My buddy Chester Mangione and I love nothing better than to stroll and suck in some sea air in the evenings. Fort Lauderdale’s beach is the most convenient place to stretch the legs, and it also provides interesting sideshows when we tire of the ocean view. Sometimes a few people…
I was hoodwinked by a writer: I was the subject of your recent story, “Mr. Hollywood Florida” (Roger Williams, July 20). I am utterly displeased with the lack of professionalism, journalistic integrity, and attention to fact that was given to this story. In the first place, I was not even…
Last November it looked as if jazz musician Turk Mauro’s life couldn’t get worse. His dad was dying, his career was sinking, he had gambled away what money he had, his marriage was in jeopardy, his health was failing. What else could go wrong? Plenty. Fate seems to have taken…
Not many of the professional boxers pounding the punching bags at Gerrits Leprechaun gym in northern downtown Miami have seriously considered the concept of a boxers union — an organization like the ones that represent athletes in other professional sports. At Gerrits: “I think I’ve heard about that,” says Carmelo…
