Mingle2 – Online Dating That’s the movie rating from the website linked above, which says The Daily Pulp deserves the rating for the following reasons: This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: crack (3x) cocaine (2x) pissed (1x) rates such things. “Crack” “Cocaine” and “Pissed.”…

So it looks like the investigation is on, according to Wanda DeMarzo’s report in the Miami Herald. Crist’s office is going to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Judge Larry Seidlin, based on the story broken here reporting his taking of gifts from lawyer Lawrence “Chris” Roberts and an…

Back from vacation to find that the Larry Seidlin special we broke last week is hitting the fan. That wacky lawyer Jack Thompson prompted the Broward State Attorney’d Office to request that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist assign an independent prosecutor to determine whether Judge Larry broke the law. And the…

So Judge Larry Seidlin, of Anna Nicole Smith fame, has quit the Broward County Courthouse to go off to Hollywood to develop a TV show. South Florida should rejoice. It´s not so much that the 57-year-old Seidlin was a bad judge; it was that he wasn´t much of a judge…

Agami At Right Another young Broward County man was killed in Iraq. 25-year-old Daniel Agami, was an expansive guy with lots of friends and a girlfriend at home. On his MySpace page, he lists his general interest as “killing Arab extremists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and his name as “Whoes Your Baghdaddy?” Known in…

I’m off this week, so postings will be sporadic, if at all, but a few quick things while I’m online. First, the Sun-Sentinel quietly made history on Sunday: The front page had an advertisement on it. It was an orange-colored two-column AT&T ad — “fewest dropped calls” — on the…

Thought I’d post a couple of VVM specials. First, the Village Voice up in New York is up to its ears this week with the old Broward crowd. Yeah, first the newspaper got our editor, Tony Ortega, and now it’s snapping up our former reporters and stories (and yes, there…

Check out this story by Lester J. Davis in the Palm Beach Post about a developer’s son, his gigantic truck, its train horn, and the love they share together in a cold, cold world. Rick over at Stuck on the Palmetto breaks down the story of Jeff George well, sharing…

So there was an investigation by MSNBC reporter Bill Dedmaninto American reporters giving political contributions to candidates for federal office. And one reporter pops up as giving money from the Sun-Sentinel. Can you guess who? Yeah, it was Ethan Skolnick. He’s always been such a blowhard political ha– … hey,…

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is getting threats from white supremacists — and the FBI is on the case, according to Greg Gordon, of McCatchy’s Washington bureau. The owner of a supremacist website called overthrow.com has made a lot of hay over Pitts’ column of June 3 headlined “‘Oppressed’…

It was just another Wednesday evening when Jerome Hicks got word that his son was targeted for death. The news came from an old friend on the phone. ¨The Haitians are saying that your son shot someone,¨ said Wayne Adams, a classmate at Deerfield High back in the early 1980s…

If there’s hate to be had, leave it to the commenters on the Sun-Sentinel website to find it. Case in point, the story about a Deerfield man who was murdered last night. Here’s the first message on the board, from someone calling themselves Carlton Moore (the black Fort Lauderdale commissioner…

You probably remember that Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Carlton Moore recently made the news (yeah, I’m linking the Freepers — couldn’t find a full version) for intervening on his son Forrest’s behalf during a run-in with police at a bar in the Himmarshee district. What you didn’t know is that his…

This news day is slower than Miguel Cabrera’s metabolism, but there is some unconfirmed news to report: Las Olas Magazine has gone under, according to a good source. Kaput. I’m still gathering info, but the word is that the mag was losing money and the owners — an outfit called…

You want a fascinating crime story, check out Audra D.S. Burch’s piece on the eight human skeletons discovered in a wooded area in Fort Myers. Eight sets of bones, all of them from white men who were killed between 1980 and 2000. The theories on the March 23 discovery range…

North Broward Hospital District CEO Alan Levine wrote this letter to a district employee in response to this column that was published this week. The column — about the travails of a man with no money, no insurance, and plenty of health problems — details a scene where the district…

John DeGroot is looking for redemption. And I confess to having felt the same Sentinel-ments at times. When I first started the Pulp 17 months ago, it was all kicks and giggles making fun of the Sun-Sentinel. But things have changed. Dramatically. The newspaper has been sold, 20 or so…

In his column yesterday, Sun-Sentinel editorial columnist Kingsley Guy asked the question we’re all wrestling with right now: Haven’t we had about enough of all this wild “democracy” stuff? The controversial decision to build a new billion-dollar runway — and set Broward County on a course to become a metropolis…

His heart didn´t sound good. There was a murmur. And the carotid artery, which supplies blood to the brain, didn´t seem to be functioning well. The doctor ordered further tests. So John Frey, who had been suffering from dizziness and headaches and now feared he might have a heart attack…

You probably have no idea how close we were losing to losing the great Jim DeFede. Yesterday morning, the former Miami New Times and Miami Herald columnist turned radio host and TV commentator explained in detail a very recent and very harrowing medical ordeal on his 940-WINZ morning show. He’d…

I’m still getting settled back in town, so I thought I’d share with you this afternoon the lastest screed from Pulp’s resident wing man, John DeGroot. This one regards the slogan contest mentioned below. Here goes: Death of English The august leaders of Florida’s fastest-shrinking newspaper are seeking slogans and/or…

Since Thursday afternoon, was off the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Phoenix, a pretty impressive event headlined by Seymour Hersh and Dana Priest. Among the panelists I saw in action was Miami Herald investigative editor Michael Sallah, who oversaw last year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Debbie Cenziper series “House Of Lies.”…