Land boats known as Lincolns, Cadillacs, and Pontiacs, tagged in Ontario, New York, or Pennsylvania, are parked facing the gently rolling hulls of the fishing fleet anchored at Hillsboro Marina Inlet. In the warm sun, Capt. Brad Terry is open for business. Knife flashing, he slices thick, pink fillets of…
Wearing a metallic red spandex top with holes that show off her melon-size breasts, a matching skirt slit to the top of her model-long legs, and silver lace-up go-go boots with four-inch stiletto heels, Leslie Glass is dressed for work. Writhing on stage and then pirouetting around a brass pole,…
You might have heard about Broward School Superintendent Frank Till bending over backward to distance himself from the Howard Stern show recently, but for whom exactly was Till bending over? According to a 1998 editorial in the St. Petersburg Times, Till bowed down to a man who is prone to…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Most Recent Misfiring The decision of the Sun-Sentinel to fire journalist Paul Scott Abbott for being in the news because his daughter was taken from him two years ago and held in an emergency shelter to this date, is, to put it mildly, inhumane (Undercurrents, March 16)! According…
Scott Lewis stands in front of the canned corn and peas in a middle aisle of the Hyde Park Market in downtown Fort Lauderdale, discussing the staples of prehistoric cuisine. The grocery store on the New River is an excellent place to conduct such a conversation. Lewis believes that six…
He sits on Hollywood Beach all day, and on the really slow days, there’s no one there to guard. So he just watches the green seawater roll up and smack the beach, over and over again. Ankle-slappers, he calls the waves, and they slap on while he sits in the…
The politicos are astonished at the defeat of Jack Latona, a Fort Lauderdale commissioner. The media points to the strategies of his novice opponent, Cindi Hutchinson, who owns a cleaning service and was able to beat the powerful incumbent lawyer with friendly volunteers, ol’-fashioned door-knocking, and grassroots efforts. Nice story…
Giving Regency Some Credit I was the contact loan officer at Regency Financial Corporation, and I was working with Andre Williams and Linda Forrest of Forrest Construction Co. (“Building Ill Will,” Julie Kay, March 2). My experience comes from working with FHA buyers with Gulf States Mortgage. I have also…
Back in the ’50s, the peach-color building at the corner of Broward Boulevard and East Acre Drive could claim the distinction of being Plantation’s first strip mall. These days the strip looks like any number of other aging retail outlets that have overrun South Florida: a crumbling façade, piles of…
As a self-appointed court-watcher in Broward County, Eleanor Mendlein has spent the last seven years observing an endless procession of divorces and custody battles. She’s scribbled hundreds of pages of notes and gathered thousands of pages of transcripts, which she keeps in boxes at her daughter’s house in Plantation. This…
Do journalists enjoy the right to freedom of speech? Not if they work for the Sun-Sentinel. After a two-years-and-still-running battle with the Department of Children and Families, Paul Scott Abbott went public to New Times (“Take the Child and Run,” Emma Trelles, February 24) about his fruitless attempts to rescue…
Bless You, My SonI moved from West Palm Beach to Daytona Beach five years ago. Unfortunately Daytona Beach is devoid of all culture and does not have a periodical such as New Times. I am trying to return to West Palm Beach, and in the interim I make sure to…
They can snap off close-call medical emergency stories like cards from a deck, but the four gray-haired men lunching at Charley’s Crab aren’t playing cards. They’re playing politics and telling stories. They figure their efforts could save the lives of the condo dwellers who populate the barrier island east of…
A former member of the Grace Christian World Church tells us the Rev. Stedroy Williams, the pastor featured in the February 24 issue of New Times (“Preying on the Congregation,” Julie Kay), has stepped down. The change came at the urging of a bishop he invited to investigate his church…
Building Ill Will A program run by 100 Black Men of Broward County promised new houses for families but has produced only complaints By Julie Kay Promise BreakersOn November 22, 1999, I signed a letter of agreement with 100 Black Men and gave them a $1000 deposit (“Building Ill Will,”…
Later this month the renowned Hollywood actor and standup comic Noriyuki “Pat” Morita will take the stage in Weston. About 500 people will pay just $8 for a seat in a luxury theater with a state-of-the-art sound system. They will undoubtedly be captivated as Morita reprises his Oscar-nominated Karate Kid…
Lured by a tantalizing radio ad, 130 first-time homebuyers crowded into the offices of a nonprofit organization called 100 Black Men last March, anxious to hear how they could purchase their own houses. Andre Williams, president of 100 Black Men of Broward County, Inc., told the potential homebuyers how they…
Ain’t she sweet? To the moviegoing masses, Meg Ryan conjures stock images of hearts, flowers, a perpetually pink pout, and that screaming fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally. Hard to find fault with any of that. But to her mother (and Fort Lauderdale resident), Susan Jordan, Meg’s more…
Publix Where working can be lethal Five workers have died in Publix’s Deerfield Beach warehouse in the past eight years. Has the workplace gotten safer? Apparently not. By Harris Meyer Gee, Burnett, Publix Must Really Love New Times to Take So Many CopiesSure, it says “Each additional copy costs $2″…
Can I see your tickets?” asks the woman, dressed head to toe in red and blue, the colors of the Haitian flag. She stands in an aisle at the Orange Bowl with two similarly festooned friends. They hold tickets entitling them to sit in seats occupied by three men rooting…
Dozens of worshipers packed the Sunday-night service at Grace Christian World Church last December to hear the words of a visiting minister who had traveled all the way from Montreal. The members’ dress was more casual than that of the morning churchgoers, their attitudes more relaxed. The evangelical Christians had…
Paul Scott Abbott exhibits remarkable composure when discussing his four-year-old daughter, Ashleigh. Smartly dressed in a pressed shirt and tweedy sports jacket, he crosses one leg loosely over the other and places an open-palmed hand on his right knee. Only the occasional wavering of his voice reveals the strain of…
