Mayor’s Boy

There’s been a lot in the newspapers, this one included, about Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti’s son, Stacey, especially after his former law partner, ex-Hollywood commissioner Keith Wasserstrom, was hit with corruption charges and kicked out of office last year. But you haven’t heard from Hollywood’s other favorite son until now…

In Case You Missed It

Check this from SotP. This is Rick at his best, bringing the story to you in a way that’s better than the story itself. And in case you missed it, here’s a bit in the Miami Herald about DeFede and dress codes at WFOR. His “‘mere presence is more powerful’…

NAACP Blows Smoke

Korda The NAACP doesn’t have anything better to do? What does Judge Korda’s pot arrest have to do with the advancement of colored people? Yeah, this one’s perplexing — and a bit overplayed, I think, by the Sentinel. The Miami Herald’s Nikki Waller and Kathleen McGrory hit the right tone…

He Cleaned Up

Phil’s New Look Good thing music mogul and murder defendant Phil Spector got a new haircut. He was starting to look a little spooky there for a while. After the jump: The Old Look…

Rose On The Carpet

Joe Rose has been called into the principal’s office at NBC-6 to explain what he said on the air last week about the desirability of black women, whom he distinguished as “redbones” and “chocolates.” He is meeting today with station executives about the comments he made last Wednesday on his…

Porter and Pot

Gee, never saw this coming with newest Miami Dolphins shining hope Joey Porter, especially after Sun-Sentinel reported the linebacker’s pit bull had killed a neighbor’s pony. At least he hit somebody his own size. Maybe bigger. And, also on the Miami Herald website, we see that Judge Lawrence Korda, who…

Things Are All Balled Up At The Home Office

Get Used To It Get used to working for a corporation, Pulpy boy. Today I was going to write about how the Sun-Sentinel’s resident crotchety old man Tom Jicha needs to stick to writing lame TV pieces instead of politics (is there something in the water? Jicha rants about global…

March Meltdown

Yeah, I was rolling along, with 11 of 14 Sweet 16 teams intact until that last two games of the day. Kentucky-Kansas and Texas-USC. Kentucky, my team, got whupped. I had them making it to the 8 to lose to UCLA. Texas got whupped. I had them going all the…

Say It Ain’t So, Joe

On the air Wednesday morning, NBC-6 sports anchor and Miami Dolphins color commentator Joe Rose commentated on, um, color — and what he said wasn’t pretty. When a caller mentioned something about the difference between light-skinned and darker-skinned black women on Rose’s morning drive radio show on 790 The Ticket,…

Happy Balling

Memphis Will Excite Why talk about the news or crime when the best days of the tournament are here. The first round is so great, all those games going on at once, with the scores and times going like stock tickers, the occasional gem (like VCU-Duke), the mini-dramas in routs…

Hollywood Goes Hollywood

The Balance Sheet is reporting that the City of Hollywood’s CRA is producing a video starring … Mayor Mara Giulianti. They’ve gotten a copy of the script, which includes this little stage direction: “Mayor Mara in outside locations (downtown & broadwalk).” And ends with the mayor, who is running for…

What FOR?

Don’t you hate it when the people who program your sports don’t know a damn thing about the games? Our CBS affiliate, WFOR-Channel 4 appears to have made several horrible decisions regarding its TV coverage of March Madness today. The second game, at 2:30, they have Georgetown-Belmont — which has…

Nightmara Of A Story

The Sun-Sentinel’s front-page feature on Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti left me wondering why the hell it had been written, other than to gross us all out with the information that the 62-year-old Giulianti and her husband like to “skinny-dip” in their backyard hot tub. That horrific image is not going…

Is Arthur Anderson Accountable?

Remember those “glitches” from Election Night that had Al Zucaro thinking he’d beaten Lois Frankel to become the next mayor of West Palm Beach? Well, George Bennett reports in the Palm Beach Post today that it was the fault of an Internet company hired by the elections office to display…

Shades of Truth

The e-mails regarding one of the leading 2008 presidential contenders arrive every week or so, and the subject lines aren’t kind. “Obama profits from media cover-up of family ties to slavery.” “Letter to Random House charges Barack Obama book is a fraud.” “The last days of Obama.” “Obama caught in…

Mad Picks

Do You Believe? I’ve been staying away from the NCAAs — but it’s time to unload some of my picks: — All 10 seeds will advance to the second round. — Memphis runs to the 8. — SEC goes strong again this year with four Sweet 16 reps (Vandy, Tenn,…

Riviera Beach Revolution

Hey, Frankelstein may have pulled it off (despite the Post’s endorsement of her opponent, Al Zucaro), but it was a bad day for incumbents yesterday. Two were knocked loose from Cooper City after it was found out that they enjoyed a glass of wine or two before commission meetings and…

Pat Riley, Coach and Fascist

Yes, ol’ Pat has exposed himself as a gutless government crony and warmonger. It started in the Miami Herald yesterday with Barry Jackson’s very short article headlined, “Heat’s Riley offers political views.” In that piece, the slicked-back b-ball legend basically complained that everybody was being too hard on poor George…

Yes, But He LOOKS Like A Doctor

This Broward-based fellow, Marc Goulet, billed himself as a physician and ran six medical clinics in five counties. Problem is that he doesn’t have a license, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office (as reported by the Miami Herald). I did a little quick Internet digging on the guy and found…

Big Jack Strikes Again

Someone named George A. was kind enough a couple of days ago to link this Jerry Capeci piece on indicted Hollywood cop (and wannabe Mafioso) Kevin Companion in a message below. I was going to let it stand alone — you know, as one of those little Pulp treats you…

Sentinel Columnist Kollin Blasts Management

Joe Kollin, a veteran Sun-Sentinel reporter who recently began a condo living column in the newspaper, is a journalist with principles. And the latest proof of this, the full glory of which is printed below, shows that he also owns something else: gonads the size of Florida grapefruits. In this…

The Herald’s Money-Makers

Getty Images Photo Of The Day The Miami Herald just removed the “Photo of the Day” featuring hot bare-breasted Latinas to make room for … hot Hispanic asses from the Calle Ocho celebration. I could get used to this…