Mara Wants “Transparency” Mayor Mara Giulianti, after decades of being against any type of ethics in government at all, has finally seen the light. In her “Facets of the Diamond” column in the puffy South Florida Sun-Times the Hollywood honchess breaks the news that she is now recommending a new…

The Riviera Beach Municipal Marina is a happening place. Houseboat resident and political activist extraordinaire Fane Lozman beat the city in stirring First Amendment case last week after a jury decided that the city’s attempt to evict him from Slip 452 was a violation of Lozman’s freedom of speech (say…

Getty Images This morning, right now in fact, the Miami Herald’s Photo of the Day is this pic from the International Women’s Parade in Medellin, Colombia. The women are naked with painted bodies. And the picture is much clearer at the Herald site, erect nipples and all. I thought it…

So Sports Illustrated is going environmental on us, declaring on the cover that “As the Planet Changes, So Do the Games We Play.” It’s about global warming. On the cover is our own Dontrelle Willis. He’s standing in Dolphin Stadium thigh deep in water. At first I thought he might…

Armadillo Man — In today’ s Sun-Sentinel Michael Mayo writes about a regular breakfast gathering of Hollywood cops who are mourning the recent department scandal. A couple of things I didn’t know about the ringleader cop in the scandal, Kevin Companion, who is alleged to have run a protection racket…

I testified in the Palm Beach County Courthouse last week about a column I wrote. I did so voluntarily, despite the fact that I have fought hard — even risked jail time — many times to keep from taking the stand in the past. Now, do you hear that sound…

I have been labeled “The Man You Love To Hate” in this month’s issue of Las Olas Magazine. And by “you,” I think they really mean the core journalistic crew who read the Pulp. Hey it’s a fair article, mostly positive, full of nice quotes from friends and colleagues, but…

Buffy With Another Friend The Palm Beach Post busts mayoral candidate Al Zucaro for having “racy” friends on his MySpace web site. Namely a bunch of E-whores and second-rate skin models. Reporter Thomas R. Collins reports that Zucaro, a prototypical old fat guy (at least by MySpace standards) was “livid”…

So my soon-to-be-former editor, Tony Ortega, is going to New York to take over the Village Voice. I’m getting two questions regarding the move: What is Ortega, the man, like? and How long do you think he’ll last at the Voice? The answer to the first question is that Tony…

Carl Hiaasen stirred up some of that Florida-fried bile that makes him great in his Sunday column in the Miami Herald. And in so doing sums up what has got the Pulp more doomsdayish about the State of Journalism than anything else. But I’m gonna let him do the talking…

Whooaaa there So Anna Nicole Smith has finally left the building. As Erica Beras reports in the Miami Herald, she was whisked away in a black hearse — “escorted by police and trailed by a small fleet of news helicopsters” — to Miami International Airport where she’ll be flown to…

Looks Pretty Gay To Me So the Sun-Sentinel has another hilarious blog to be savaged on the Pulp. It’s called “transPARENT: true confessions of moms and dads.” When I first saw it a week or so ago, I thought, “This is gonna be a goldmine of material.” Then I read…

Michael “Corleone” Giulianti To help you get through the day I thought I’d share this with you. It’s from a bullet hole-and-firearm-adorn web site for the “Outlaw Legal Group” in Los Angeles which is run by Michael Giulianti, one of the illustrious sons of Mara Giulianti, our very own mayor…

I’m in a big hurry this morning (and was in court all day yesterday) so I’ll borrow from Stuck on the Palmetto, one of the best blogs in South Florida — and hands-down the best in terms of aggregating interesting local news. First, Rick breaks down Buddy Nevins’ kick of…

After the Anna Nicole Smith burial hearings that grabbed the nation by its nethers were over, I needed a bath. Hell, after that spectacle, the whole town needed a bath. In a tub of lye. Sadly lacking any caustic chemicals, I settled for whiskey in the place where the famous…

Scarberry Another morning, another day of Hollywood fallout. First came the news last week that four veteran officers in the Hollywood P.D. had become ensnared in an FBI sting. The four believed they were protecting a mob family from New York and helping it run heroin when really the wiseguys…

Cat305 Rahming Before The Takedown A photojournalist working for the online pub Category 305 was knocked to the ground and arrested by police last week after taking he refused to leave a corner of Biscayne Boulevard in Miami where he was reporting a story. Cat305 editor Rebecca Wakefield has the…

Pearlman The New York Post has broken a story about our lovely governor, Charlie Crist, that looks fairly damning, if not indictable. The allegation is that Crist, while serving as Florida Attorney General, received $11,000 in “illegal” campaign contributions from Orlando sleazebag, boy band impresario, and all-around fat fuck Lou…

Barba (Read The Jump) Here’s a message that came in my Pulp box from a reader who doesn’t feel the love for the Sun-Sentinel. Make of it what you will. I have nothing to add, except that there’s a whole slew of people who might buy the Tribune company, so…

It’s an annual Academy Awards ritual; after watching the overhyped event that you sense is dictated by some nameless eminence grise in a backroom (perhaps an inscrutable wheelchair-bound dwarf) you get the morning coverage regurgitating it in listless fashion with nothing new or remotely interesting to add at all. And…

Michael Koretzky’s 2nd Annual Short-And-Sweet Media Job Fair went off swimmingly at the Jazziz bistro in the Seminole Hard Rock plaza Saturday. Personal highlight was knocking down screwdrivers while alternatively listening to the photographic exploits of freelancer Ralph Notaro (who purports to have shot the last known pics of Anna…

Jeffrey Dahmer killed Adam Walsh. That’s right. The most infamous cannibal in American history murdered one of the most publicized child abduction victims of the past half-century, the 6-year-old son of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh. Sounds crazy, right? Well, I think it’s true. And I know it deserves…