Over Rosh Hashanah dinner, Charlie Crist and Steve Geller prayed over a table spread with wine, bread, apples, and honey. May the new year be a sweet year for us… How very Crist-like. The Republican governor dining at a Democratic senator’s house. The Christian celebrating a Jewish holiday. The St…

In case you missed it, here’s a comment from below. It’s a beautiful thing. I’d be sure it was a hoax (c’mon, transformative change and a Pulitzer prediction in the same paragraph?) if it weren’t for the earnestness. I’m 50-50 right now as to whether it came from a real…

Apparently the large gay population in Broward is doing more than just having sex in public bathrooms. They’re (gasp!) watching movies. Lots and lots of movies. The most popular rental movie in the Fort Lauderdale area right now, according to Netflix, is “Boy Culture.” The synopsis: A male prostitute with…

The Miami Herald breaks the news that one of the two men — or should I say suspects — found floating in a lifeboat by the Coast Guard yesterday is a fugitive from Arkansas. Kirby Logan Archer was a “trusted assistant manager” at Wal-Mart before he took off with 92…

Thought you could pick up the morning Herald without having to read about old people lubing it up and banging each other like two actors from a 20-year-old movie? Think again: We won’t lie and tell you that life begins at 50, but we will you this: Many people have…

Gina Marks, aka Regina Milbourne, aka “The Miami Psychic,” has squirmed her way out of trouble yet again. You remember Marks, she’s the con artist who hooked up with infamous publisher Judith Regan on a book titled “Miami Psychic.” The book was as much a fraud as Marks herself, but…

Here’s two ads that were just posted on Romenesko. One is for interns, the other for community news reporters, aka entry level folks. The hilarious thing is that they say they are looking for “aggressive and enterprising” reporters for the community positions. What, so they can break them of those…

The Miami Herald today reports on how Mayor Jim Naugle’s “anti-gay crusade” is “driving a wedge into South Florida’s black community.” Reporter Peter Bailey sets the stage: It’s black ministers vs. white gay dudes in a battle royale. Who are the black ministers? O’Neal Dozier and Mathis Guice, of course…

Veteran Tallahassee reporter S.V. Dáte has been taken off the Florida governor’s beat. Palm Beach Post Managing Editor Bill Rose told me this afternoon that the decision was made yesterday to reassign Dáte to the legislature and other reporting tasks after the reporter’s wife, Mary Beth, was recently hired as…

To hell with the news. I’m going football today. Last week, I bet six games and won four, a moderate success at best. This week, I’m gonna pick six games, based on a mix of the best games and what I think are sure winners. Take my lead at your…

You may have already seen this, but it just popped up in the Pulp email from a progressive watchdog group Media Matters: Washington, D.C. – Media Matters for America today released Florida data for its new report “Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed…

I wanted to post about Yale Galanter, O.J. Simpson’s South Florida-based attorney. I’ve had lunch with Galanter in the past and knew he was a bit of an egotist (hey, what good lawyer isn’t?), but he seemed to go a bit far yesterday with the national cameras rolling. But Rick…

Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga regrets doubling, and in some cases tripling, the price of club level seats this year. And I’m sure hearing that is going to make seat holders, who are now paying $400 a game (Is that true?), feel much better about having to pay such exorbitant sums…

It’s not like there’s nothing going on at all around here (apartment buildings are exploding in fireballs, for one) but I thought I’d steer you over to an interesting civics test which the majority of college seniors in this country fail miserably. It’s called the American Civic Literacy Test and…

Andrew “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” Meyer is an aspiring journalist. At one point in journalism history, right around August 4, 1974, Meyer’s gonads alone might have helped him get a job at some newspapers. But in this day and age, it ain’t gonna help him. More like make them turn…

Andrew Meyer — the guy who was tasered at the John Kerry event in Gainesville — gives hope to Weston. Who knew such political passion could come from anyone raised in that wealthy, separatist, plastic place? I’m not saying Meyer is a hero. He was a little too spastic to…

Well, it goes from Pulp promise to fact: Trent Green was a bad idea. I had written that Green probably wouldn’t last half the season and that all fans can hope from him is “that he stewards the offense without a complete meltdown” until John Beck is ready. Well the…

— The Broward Times’ Elgin Jones learns that the Broward Black Elected Officials club was being run by Lauderdale Lakes Commissioner Levoyd Williams at city hall with the help of city employees on the city’s dime. Levoyd’s longtime friend, Commissioner Hazelle Rogers, was also involved. This isn’t good news for…

The Amway-loving reverend, who was funeralized yesterday, left behind some great quotes, too. Among my favorites: “Biblically justified.” (On George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003) “If homosexuals win the right to ‘marry,’ expect further similarly argued claims challenging legal barriers to polygamy, bestiality, and child marriage.” “To…

Ken Jenne’s old pal John DeGroot gives a heads-up on what he believes needs to be done in the wake of our own Napoleon’s fall. Included are his thoughts on interim Sheriff Al Lamberti, the idea of appointing the sheriff position, and a proposed $70 million jail. Interesting stuff. Big…

I asked State Attorney spokesman Ron Ishoy about the last time an elected official went to trial on corruption charges in Broward County (John Lomelo, acquitted) and here’s what he sent me. Interesting for historical perspective and surely will be a blast from the past for some of you old-time,…