New Times Deserves (and Welcomes) a Spanking Your flair for dramatic innuendo has about as much substance as the garbage Rick Sanchez calls news (“Rick Sanchez, Godless Communist!” Robert Andrew Powell, June 1). You deserve a spanking, but Sanchez deserves life in prison for impersonating a news anchor. I am…
On a warm July evening a year ago, Jeremy Rose made a mistake. The 17-year-old bought cocaine. He put it in his car. Painstakingly trying to navigate unnoticed, he drove too slowly. A Broward Sheriff’s deputy spotted him creeping along under the limit and pulled him over. Jeremy’s Rastafarian-style dreads…
Looking like a battered Spencer Tracy, 49-year-old Julian Jorge Reyes stands beside his 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in the parking lot across from Domino Park in Miami’s Little Havana. At 3 a.m. the bright lights on the marquee of the newly renovated Tower Arts Center theater turn the gray at…
With a load of heroic fanfare, megamillionaire baseball team owner John Henry promised us he would not sell the Marlins and proclaimed he would keep Major League Baseball in Florida. For some reason the otherwise brainy commodities trader actually thought good intentions and some amount of money would get a…
Sanchez’s Babbling Bluster Must GoThank God somebody said it ( “Rick Sanchez Is a Godless Communist!” Robert Andrew Powell, June 1)! Sanchez is an instigating idiot. Channel 7 is bad enough, but he is unbelievable. Great story; I just have one question: Was any of it true? It would be…
It was just before 7 a.m. when Inmate #BS98-5144 started pushing the speaker button used to alert jail deputies. Beep. Beep. Beeeeeep! The obnoxious sound woke up the other inmates in Broward County’s North Bureau jail. While they tossed about angrily, Deputy Albert Tacher would smile, rise from his post…
Virgil Bolden loves to sit at a small round table under an old oak tree in the front yard of his home in the 1500 block of NW Fourth Street in Fort Lauderdale, wearing coveralls and watching the action. Most days the action is slow. Neighborhood children wander up and…
When politics, sex, and rumors mix in a desert resort setting, we want to assure our readers that Undercurrents will go to great lengths to report on it. And when it involves the strange bedfellows of our least favorite presidential candidate, George W. Bush; our favorite publisher, Larry Flynt; and…
Cue the giant whooshing sound. Add a bombastic voice-over, a flashing graphic, some dynamic music. Cut to a man and a woman sitting behind a curved gray desk inside a vast room. In the background: video monitors, red railings, the bobbing heads of lackeys answering telephones. Dark-haired female: Good evening,…
Good thing Norman Padgett has propped a sign at the foot of his unpaved driveway: Frog Legs, Alligator, Turtle Meat. Otherwise it might be easy to miss his Boynton Beach homestead; it rests on a large wedge of land hidden from street view by slash pines, live oaks, and enormous…
From the Condomania Files: Gee, it’s funny how a visit from the media can shake up even the most lackadaisical of condo boards. Last week New Times was invited by a resident to sit in on the annual meeting of the Woodsetter North Homeowners Association, a 140-unit group of town…
Yes, and They’re Made of Iron!It took a lot of balls to run that picture on page 20 (“My Life as a Eunuch” Bob Whitby, May 25). It’s great to see a South Florida publication willing to take some chances. Keep up the great work! Adam Matza Hollywood ¿Como Se…
It was more than 40 years ago now, but Gelding has no trouble recalling the day his life took a very odd turn. He was 12 years old, riding the school bus. It was crowded and there was no place to sit, so he stood. The bus hit a bump…
Between forkfuls of homemade cheesecake and sips of coffee served on the Sunday china, the seven men gathered around the dining room table of Bill Bettelli’s Davie home tell their divorce horror stories. Nothing unusual about that — thousands of men in Broward County could rattle off something similar. What’s…
HIP Health Plan of Florida is a nonprofit health-maintenance organization that relies largely on tax dollars and has hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts in Broward County alone. It might be assumed that employees of such a company would be staid and frugal, but that’s not the picture…
Here’s a story that will make you feel secure flying out of Miami International Airport: The man in charge of security at MIA handed his car keys to a thief. Nelson Oramas pulled up in front of Dicey Riley’s bar in Fort Lauderdale, turned to the first black guy he…
Best Letter Writer I’m very honored and humbled that you guys said those nice things about my work (“Best Daily Newspaper Writer, Palm Beach County,” Best of Broward and Palm Beach 2000, May 11). When I left Boston four years ago, I figured I’d miss the Red Sox and the…
Stephen Tashman settles himself on a hardwood chair inside a West Palm Beach federal courtroom, his attention riveted on the morning’s proceedings. It’s the second day of trial, and although Tashman’s intent on the steady stream of arguments and testimonies, he appears relaxed, his deportment hardly that of a man…
There are two ways of looking at David Gorman’s 11-year legal pursuit of Big Sugar. The 53-year-old North Palm Beach attorney is either a noble crusader or a quixotic fool. In 1989 Gorman was a successful commercial litigator with a niche specialty in construction cases. He had a penchant for…
A crush of humanity is flowing onto Sunrise Boulevard — a swarm of people slowly marching to the sea, like an exodus hoping to escape a war…. Oh, wait, these are people seeking rather than fleeing war machines. Hundreds of thousands (could it be a million?) are drawn to the…
Donato RevealedThis is horrible! Thanks for the story (“Fifteen Minutes of Infamy,” Bob Norman,May 4). Please get this story to a national level. This situation is really a horror. These people and Donato are sick and cruel. Please get the news out worldwide as to this man’s character. Thank you…
Donato Dalrymple calls Elián Gonzalez his “spiritual son,” and he plans to play an ongoing role in the boy’s life even if Elián is returned to Cuba. Dalrymple says he’s entitled to it: He was, after all, chosen by God to be Elián’s savior, to find the boy drifting at…
