The birds know it’s coming. About two dozen of them were burrowing in the ground in front of my house before my four-year-old daughter knocked on the window and scattered on them. You can see it now. The winds are starting, the clouds are there, the clockwise rotation already visible…

In the battle of the hurricane blogs, I have to give the edge to Bob King. The Palm Beach Post storm-meister informs us in his most recent post that the National Hurricane Center gave big props to Fidel: “SPECIAL THANKS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA FOR PERMITTING THE RECON AIRCRAFT…

As Tropical Storm Ernesto zeroes in on and takes aim at and draws a bead on South Florida, the Sun-Sentinel, showing true Help Team spirit, gave us two pages of instruction on the storm inside the Local section today. Among its indispensable orders: “If you have a TV antenna or…

Y’all may not know about South of the Suwannee. It’s a blog done by an anonymous character who lives in north Broward. He also goes by Gator and has frequently commented on the Pulp in the past. Gator has reasonable intelligence, but he’s definitely compromised in some way. You can…

Broward County Mayor Ben Graber just led a press conference from the emergency management building in Plantation. It was startling, not because of the blah-blah-blah that was uttered, but Graber’s tremorous, almost breathless delivery. Graber was clearly nervous — and that does nothing to instill confidence in the populous. It…

I’ve got bad vibes about Ernesto. I call him Che — and if the guerilla revolutionary has revenge on his mind, there’s only one place to go: Miami. And it’s not just for the Cuban exile community that reviles him, but former CIA spook Felix Rodriquez, who tracked him down…

DJs Santos and Ferrero El Nuevo Herald arts writer Jose Antonia Evora tendered his resignation to Miami Herald Media Company President Jesus Diaz, Jr. today — just days before his 10th anniversary with the company — saying that the newspaper “left him out in the cold” and that a recent…

Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne won’t testify in Donald Trump’s case against the developers of the Seminole Hard Rock after a judge admonished the real estate tycoon’s lawyers for hyping the case in the press and ordered them to name the Sun-Sentinel reporters to whom they had leaked information. That’s the…

The Florida Press Club contest results are streaming in. Check out the results here. Lots of categories to go, but plenty of winners there already. Congratulations to all of them. Myself, I pulled two first place finishes already, in the commentary and sports column categories. So I should be pretty…

The judge in Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino ordered the real estate and reality TV magnate’s legal team to reveal the name of the reporter to whom it leaked information on the civil case. It really shouldn’t have been such a difficult deduction for…

(L to R) Mamaux, Johnson, Wexler, Katz, and Sofer The debut of the Sundance Channel’s documentary series “The Hill” delivered at least half of what it promised last night, especially the part about offering us a “glimpse inside Capitol Hill.” First, we got a good taste of Robert Wexler’s staff,…

Pulp Reader Alert The Sun-Sentinel has its latest Help Team special today: A giant front-page package on … what to do when an airline loses your bags. This follows yesterday’s hard-hitting front-pager on the ever-controversial subject of contact lens care. Diane Lade’s article, titled WHERE’S YOUR LUGGAGE, and is just…

The day after my column about Riviera Beach political activist Fane Lozman hit the streets, the city sent him an eviction letter. Coincidence? Maybe, but whether it was tied to my report doesn’t change the fact that the City of Riviera Beach is engaging in a shameless game of retaliation…

Dumb Savage Former Coconut Creek cop Michael Dunsavage already pleaded guilty to stealing money from the migrant workers, reports Tonya Alanez in the Sun-Sentinel. I’d like to hear from the commentator named “Jim” (see the comments here), who insisted on this blog that Dunsavage was innocent of the charges and…

Don’t forget to watch war-mongering Robert Wexler and his young, idealistic, gay, Republican-dating staff tonight on the Sundance Channel tonight at 9 p.m. Here’s a run-down of tonight’s series opener: Fighting the Good Fight — With the 2004 national election fast approaching, Congressman Wexler and his staff pour their off-time…

No sense in wasting time to get to the heart of media news in South Florida today: The Sun-Sentinel had one of the worst front pages in modern recorded history. In its terribly regrettable three-story format — with assorted, miscellaneous garbage cluttering a third of the page — the editors…

Via Howard Sher This, for me, captures the feeling of an unwanted deadline better than anything I’ve ever seen…

Oh, the oh-so-responsible media types are up in arms. They’re peppering Romenesko lately, complaining about the excessive coverage of the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. The attention, complains Denver Post columnist Cindy Rodriguez put it, “won’t improve public schools, solve the illegal immigration crisis, bring down gas prices, improve our economy…

Via Stuck on the Palmetto Today, the Sun-Sentinel enlightens us on why Shawna Willey was so obsessed with having large, vicious dogs surrounding her all the time. Sallie James, Jennifer Gollan and Robert Nolin report on the front page that Willey had the Presa Canario that killed her in her…

New quiz from spam quotes sent to the Pulp. The quality of the quotes are getting better (though a bit more pedantic). Match them up: SAID 1. I only drink to make other people seem more interesting. 2. But I think that the most important thing was to really stop…