Is there a Floridian more fun, more frisky, more flagrantly insane than Ann Coulter? Maybe! But if so, we don’t know about it — because that person, whoever s/he may be, doesn’t do us the profound service of sharing his or her thoughts each week in a public forum.Coulter does…
Three South Floridians made uncommon waves with their opinions on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell this week. One worried about the military worrying about sex, one decided that male Lady Gaga fans must be gay (which is true, actually), and one worried about the free speech of chaplains. 1. Allen West…
“I am going to war on teacher’s tenure,” says Melissa Barton, “and I will win. I’m going to eliminate it this year. By this time next year, tenure won’t be a word in the teacher union’s vocabulary.”Yep, Barton is pissed. In 2008, her 5-year-old son, Alex, was voted out of…
Michael Verdugo won’t work in Hollywood again. The 35-year-old police officer was fired from the Hollywood PD last year after it was revealed he had appeared in a 15-minute pornographic film when he was 22. Verdugo lost his battle this week for reinstatement when a judge decided the Police Department…
Mark Foley is back! Maybe. The Republican ex-congressman, who resigned in disgrace in 2006 after revelations that he’d made passes at teenaged congressional pages, is considering a run for the mayor of West Palm Beach.Lots of folks will gripe, rightly enough, that the last thing the country, the GOP, or…
A story titled “Exotic Creatures Making Their Way Into South Florida” on the front page of Sunday’s Sun-Sentinel elucidated some of the dangers of the exotic-pet trade. Deep into the story’s second page, the pet industry was given its say. “A lot of children spend hours in front of the…
Florida’s otters are up to no good.First, in March, a 90-year-old man in Venice, Florida, was brutally mauled by a rabid otter, which came streaking from the bushes of an otherwise peaceful street like a cute, button-nosed demon. The otter went for the man’s foot and brought him crashing to…
About once a year, a play opens in South Florida that is so good, so rich with life, that I spend the week after opening telling everyone within earshot: Go see this fucking thing! If you only leave the house once this month, go see this play! Missing a great…
How the hell did South Florida’s most troubled theater land Michael Leeds? Usually, the only time Tony nominees visit South Florida in any official capacity is to host the Carbonell Awards. Somehow, Leeds, the Tony-nominated director and composer of Swinging on a Star, has found himself directing at the nonequity…
Today, we enter the guts of the holiday season. So here’s an Australian Christmas song by a godless piano player with weird hair. It’s called “White Wine in the Sun,” and it’s beautiful. Happy holidays, and enjoy your turkey…
Maryland radio station WCBM 680 posted a brief video this week of Congressman-elect Allen West that is 50 percent history lesson, 50 percent political polemic, and 100 percent terrifying. West, as it turns out, believes that the United States has been at war with Islam for a very, very long…
It seems SoFla is taking a page from the Rudy Giuliani playbook, trying every which way to get homeless people off of our streets and out of our sight. To that end, three initiatives have been proposed in three cities in recent weeks.Two weeks ago, Palm Beach County unveiled a…
Wanna close a GameStop? Then rob it. Twice.It seems to have worked for Boris the Bandit — the fellow who robbed the GameStop outlet at 2223 SW 22nd St. in Pompano Beach, twice in the past 12 months and most recently on November 6. We cannot be absolutely certain the…
You’d think that the problem with sickly sweet, carbonated, high-alcohol energy drinks would be (1) that they’re disgusting, or (2) that the hangovers are hellish. And you’d be right on both counts. But the Food and Drug Administration believes there’s another problem: That consumers will drink too much of the…
“I need your ideas,” says Rick Scott, the governor-elect of Florida, in this new YouTube video posted November 17. “We gotta make this the model state. We gotta make this the state that we’re the most effective, the best state to do business, the best state for all Floridians. And…
Palm Beach County GOP Chair Sid Dinerstein wants you to know that he did not, not, not write a mailer accusing his opponents for the GOP chairmanship of Florida of being stingy little peasants without the earning power to do the party a damned bit of good. Dinerstein explained the…
Good news, heathens! Mary Roach is teaching the Bible to your children!The South Florida author wrote a book titled Gospel Bits that teaches kids the alphabet and the Good Book at the same time. Gospel Bits is available at this year’s Miami Book Fair International. Roach’s book leaves out many…
The state-owned French railway company that hopes to supply Florida with high-speed trains launched a publicity campaign recently to help combat criticisms of its Nazi past. The campaign includes a web page titled “Heritage” that claims to detail the Societe Nationale des Chamins de fer Francais’ connection with the Nazis.But…
Do you know who’s watching your children?Michael LaForgia does, and it’s not pretty. This past weekend, LaForgia, of the Palm Beach Post, published a story that began with this indelible sentence: “Palm Beach County paid a convicted child molester and other people with criminal records nearly half a million dollars…
Every time the former Catholic priest and Lake Worth resident Neil Doherty enters the news, it seems like more (alleged) victims come a’tumbling from the woodwork. Last week, Doherty was hauled off to the poky for a violation of the terms of his bail — he had left his house,…
Sometimes it helps to look abroad for one’s news to capture the peculiar absurdities of American politics. Case in point: The Daily Mail, of the U.K., yesterday ran an item discussing a potential chair of the U.S. energy committee, Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL). For Shimkus, it would be a breeze…
“It’s OK to say no to panhandlers.” So read the signs now going up across Palm Beach County — part of an effort by Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and the county government to keep decent people from being bothered by the dirty and the weird-smelling.”You don’t have to feel bad inside,”…
