Tribune Co. and Sun-Sentinel sold! This Sam Zell dude sounds a little crazy, at least relative to the dull-ass Trib: The transaction will place Zell, the motorcycle riding, epithet slinging multibillionaire, who just two months ago closed the $39 billion sale of his sprawling real estate company, atop of one…
The front-page of the Sun-Sentinel is dominated by a story about Passover. Lois K. Solomon’s report begins: The smell of hot matzo ball soup, roast chicken, gefilte fish and freshly grated horseradish. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered around the family table. Distinctive Hebrew songs. Cup after cup of sweet Manischewitz…
So a lawyer representing Buddy Nevins sent a letter to me and New Times Friday regarding the Philip Busey article posts. Yeah, Buddy’s playing that way now, which I guess means he’s definitely retiring from the Sun-Sentinel. His lawyer, by the way, is none other than Christopher Fertig, who is…
New look. Couldn’t post earlier during the transition period. Can’t post now because I’m working my ass off. More later…
Courtesy of CNN The Mayor With Big Media That thing they call progress — or, if your prefer, ever denser sprawl and crowded city life — moves north in South Florida. And critical mass in recent years has subtly shifted from Miami to … Plantation. A sign of that: Last…
The Sentinel’s Jerome Burdi tells us about Anthony Thompson, a 26-year-old man who picked up his brand new crotch rocket, a Yamaha YZF-R1 (pictured), last evening at about 7:15 p.m. On his first ride on the motorcycle, he lost control on North Federal Highway in Boynton Beach, slammed into a…
Assistant Hollywood Police Chief Louis Granteed contacted me to rebut the post below. I told him that I’d take down what he said and print it straight from his mouth. In a nutshell, he defended both himself and the department in light of the recent FBI’s mafia sting operation that…
I’m getting new information on the smear of former Davie town council candidate Philip Busey — namely that another political player, or set of players, might have been involved in giving Buddy Nevins the now infamous porn story. While nothing is conclusive, and I doubt anyone will ever take responsibility…
I had never heard of Doris Mansour before this morning, but thanks to an excellent obituary by John Dorschner in this morning’s Miami Herald, I feel like I’ve met her. Mansour, who died Tuesday at the age of 68, was the office manager and copy editor for the Herald’s defunct…
Bennett Another Miami Herald guy is heading to the Broward County’s top black newspaper. Brad Bennett, an daytime assignment editor in Broward, has given his notice at the newspaper. His last day will be April 13, according to sources. The former Fort Lauderdale city beat reporter’s new job: Editor-in-Chief of…
There is an insane standoff around a bank on Miami Beach happening right now. Apparently, robbers hit the Commercial Bank of Florida on 41st Street. Then they got separated and police nabbed one man. Now the others are threatening to shoot people if they don’t release him. A SWAT team…
You’ve got to watch this Jon Stewart take on our own Rick Sanchez, the Channel 7 wonder who now works at CNN. Hey, it’s a living. (To supplement the Sanchez experience and for more laughs read this)…
Looks like ALM (American Lawyer Media) — the company that owns the Daily Business Reviews — is going up on the chopping block. The company, which caters mostly to the legal crowd and is known to produce outstanding journalism, consists of 19 magazines, including flagship The American Lawyer, and 14…
New Times staff writer and former music editor Jeff Stratton is off to unchartered territory, almost literally. He left the NT last week to move to Roatan, a small island off the coast of Honduras. Think South Florida, circa 1922, only with “jungle-covered hills.” There he will live in his…
Mr. Beatty Going To Broward The inimitable Whitey Fraud alerted us below to this news, but it certainly deserves its own post. Robert Beatty, former V.P. and general counsel for the Miami Herald, is buying the Broward Times from publisher and erstwhile political candidate Keith Clayborne, according to Herald business…
Former Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt should be enjoying a semblance of vindication right now. He tried to clean up the PD during his tenure and was fired for his efforts. Now some of the officers he tried to expunge are part of a scandal involving an FBI mafia sting…
— The Sun-Sentinel had an interesting and important report by reporter Scott Wyman and database guru John Maines about the way rich people — like Dan Marino, Austin Forman, Jim Moran, Rick Case, Bill “Bag Man” Scherer, and Preston Henn — benefit mightily from the increasingly controversial Save our Homes…
Granteed: Is He The Leaker? The Sun-Sentinel’s John Holland revealed the depths of Hollywood Police Chief James Scarberry’s delusions in this morning’s newspaper. Scarberry swears the leak of the FBI investigation into his department didn’t come from his men even though he squealed about it to six members of his…
That’s Felix At Left A former CIA agent who tracked down Che in the mountains of Bolivia says he believes the supposed remains of the revolutionary behind held in Cuba are fake. Gustavo Villoldo, a Cuban exile, says he knows this because he kept buried Che himself. And he claims…
Well, the truth for one thing. But, more specifically, the community newspaper owned by big Bush family backer David Eller was akeert to print the following letter from town activist and attorney Tom Connick. The letter — and Connick’s preamble — speak for themselves. Enjoy. ————————————————– David Eller is a…
Funny Guy A lot of people wonder what it is Democratic Party Chairman Mitch Ceasar actually does with his time. The place is packed with donkeys and yet the local party produces poor candidates and is basically a sorry mess. Not good. Well, it turns out that Ceasar has been…
It’s U.S. Census time, so it’s time for the dailies to make broad prognostications in front-page stories on what the population numbers mean. This year, the numbers show slowed growth — and the Sun-Sentinel took it the farthest, with their giant hand-wringing top-o’-the-fold headline: “Has The Luster Faded?” Oh lord…
