This morning the Miami Herald has at least two offbeat stories worth reading, one on the death (and life) of an erudite Tobacco Road character named Conrad Wayne Lamm who “looked like a cross between Burl Ives and Truman Capote and sounded like a character penned by Tennessee Williams (who…
John DeGroot, who used to work as a top aide for Sheriff Ken Jenne, provides the following piece to the Pulp on the federal investigation that is expected to end within a week. While I’m hearing from sources that King Ken is destined for an indictment, DeGroot doesn’t see justice…
His name is Cristóbal Herrera Ulashkevich and he freelanced for the Associated Press. After taking pictures of Fidel fainting and falling, he says he’sliving in forced exile in Miami after a stint in Costa Rica, according to Wilfredo Cancio Isla of El Nuevo Herald. One morning in December 2004, two…
Think I’ll just talk baseball today, but first I want to point out an article I should have linked yesterday, Scott Wyman’s story in the Sun-Sentinel about the firing of two airport managers for accepting money from a baggage handling business called Bags to Go. This is an indication of…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter couldn’t make the June 26 commission meeting, but she took the time to call in her vote on one issue: giving the county’s health insurance contract to a single company, Vista Health Plan. “Nobody wants to be perceived as taking away someone’s choice, but this…
Just thought I’d share this 2005 snippet from the Coral Gables Gazette. Check the name in bold, our own Bang Bus mogul. Gala in Gables raises $700,000 for Bay Point Schools By Rosalind Rush Moore Not only did guests at the fundraiser for Bay Point Schools have a great time…
The Miami Herald’s Joan Fleischman writes about a porn producer’s divorce woes this morning — and it provided the Pulp a portal into a parade of South Florida sleaze. The column is about Kristopher Hinson, a “reality porn” impresario who has made a fortune off his bangbus.com and other sites…
This from an American Journalism Review story on the downsizing of local film critics: In June, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reassigned movie critic Phoebe Flowers to a general entertainment and pop culture beat, with a focus on local arts, according to Editor Earl Maucker. The paper’s film reviews now come…
The Miami Herald’s Dan Christensen tells the story today of how defense attorney Hilliard Moldof was given a “break” — and not prosecuted or even so much as suspended for bribing a witness in a murder case. The case involved the torture and murder of 47-year-old Michael Sortal, the brother…
Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking: “Who the fuck is Cinema Dave?” Well, he’s Dave Montalbano, an erstwhile film critic with a web page who contributes reviews to the Deerfield Observer, that’s who. And apparently someone has been carrying out their diabolical anti-Phoebe Flowers agenda using Cinema Dave’s good…
All Sun-Sentinel “Lifestyles” columnist Ralph De La Cruz planned to do was write another silly sentimental piece, this one on his favorite bridge, a step above his usual column, which often doesn’t get beyond his couch or kitchen table. But funny things happened on his way to bridge bliss, a…
Former Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in March, died Monday. He was one of the good cops but was fired by the political machine for trying to turn around the corrupt, befouled Hollywood PD and get rid of what he privately called the “goombah”…
The project manager for URS Corp., which has the county contract to oversee all construction that goes on at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has filed a police report accusing a newspaper reporter of stealing his business journal — which happened to contain damning evidence on a county commissioner. And that…
The Pulp has been delinquent in pointing you towards the incredible story about Ken Jenne and Michael Satz putting their resources into arresting and prosecuting inmates in the Broward County Jail who commit sex acts while alone in their jail cell. Or at least that’s what the Miami Herald calls…
Just to rile things up a bit, here’s the latest from “Ellen Dalton,” a soldier on the Post side of the newspaper war sputtering along north of the border: Have you noticed that the Palm Beach Post’s Internet site has become the new “tip sheet” for the Sun-Sentinel? Case in…
When Stacy Ritter was elected to the Broward County Commission in November, her lobbyist-husband, Russ Klenet, promised to cut ties to companies that contract with the county in order to avoid legal and ethical conflicts. But evidence — in the form of electronic mail and a possibly purloined notebook —…
In the Miami Herald version of the Jim Naugle “apology” and subsequent big gay rally at Fort Lauderdale City Hall, there is mention made of a New Times story the mayor handed out as proof that homersexuals are banging each other in every warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in…
The Sun-Sentinel is reporting that Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle is about to hold a press conference at city hall that will include an “apology.” Naugle’s 1 p.m. press conference will preempt a rally scheduled for 4 p.m. by the Flush Naugle crowd calling for his resignation for his recent…
Daily Business Review Law Editor Harris Meyer, a former NTer, goes off on judges and corruption in Broward County and comes up with one reason why it’s been able to flourish so long: Why has all this gone unchallenged for so long? Reporters who cover Broward quickly discover one answer…
What are the good people who put the Sun-Sentinel together every night smoking? Can’t be good imported stuff, because they’d come up with something better than this. What provokes the latest Pulp assault? The top of the front page this morning. It starts with a picture of a kid who…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Doreen Hemlock did what is, overall, a decent front-page piece on the dearth of vacation time in the U.S. of A. But I had a hard time getting past the lede. The story’s downtrodden subject, the one we’re supposed to sympathize with for not taking much vacation time,…
Miami Herald investigations editor Michael Sallah is going to be at Border’s Books in Aventura tomorrow night talking about war. The Society of Professional Journalists is sponsoring the event and Sallah will be signing his book, Tiger Force, the literary version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series he and Mitch Weiss…
