She’s half Rush Limbaugh’s age, but don’t worry, she’s still plenty legal. He’s 59. And this weekend, the nation’s most notorious blowhard will marry Kathryn Rogers, 33, at his Palm Beach mansion in what he insisted should be a private, intimate ceremony. From an email he sent to Page2Live.com:”We try…
We knew that was coming, didn’t we? Marco Rubio borrows footage from a Sun-Sentinel editorial meeting with Charlie Crist to show how the governor defended Jim Greer even as it became evident that the Florida Republican Party chairman had been mishandling — if not stealing — party money.There should be…
Say what you will about the questionable contracting of staffers at the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority; at least they have a sense of humor. Because surely they’re joking about demanding $300,000 from the city to cover the costs of filling records requests made by the forensic auditor reviewing the Housing…
Your daily glance at what’s making news in Palm Beach and Broward:The two Hollywood Police officers who unwittingly recorded themselves talking about how they would “do a little Walt Disney” by fixing a police report absolving their fellow cop from blame when he rear-ended a woman’s car. [WPLG-10]A 30-year-old college…
In this week’s print edition of New Times, a South Florida dominatrix tells of the dirty deeds clients begged her to do to them. For slightly less adventurous South Floridians looking for a different kind of rub, restaurant critic John Linn recommends Sheila’s Famous Barbecue, Conch, and More on South J Street…
It’s exciting — and a little scary — when you see a local wingnut become a national wingnut; but that’s exactly what we’ve witnessed this past year with Pamela Geller, an ultra-conservative anti-Muslim crusader who in the past has teamed up with like-minded South Floridians to promote hate-fest events like…
For Broward Health CEO Frank Nask, there’s a fine line between unemployment and a multimillionaire’s lifestyle. He’s glad to have landed in the latter. This past January, Nask was facing the prospect of being terminated by the public hospital district’s board of commissioners, a majority of whom appeared to believe…
Jim Greer, former chairman of the Republican Party and a close friend of Gov. Charlie Crist’s, was arrested this morning in connection with allegations that he formed a slush fund using contributions from party supporters. The Orlando Sentinel has the story.This won’t help Crist’s campaign for U.S. Senate. On the…
Congressional candidate Allen West gave what might be his most absurd speech yet Friday at a meeting for a local chapter of Glenn Beck’s 912 Project. Jump ahead to about the 3:30 mark. This is what you’ll hear:The American way is that if you challenge us, we’ll figure it out. I was…
Here’s a glance at what’s in the local headlines:It’s not quite the Miracle on the Hudson, but a small plane made a safe emergency landing in a field just short of the Fort Lauderdale airport’s runway. It narrowly missed hitting a home. [WPLG-5]Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher took…
Last week, an activist bent on reforming the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority resigned rather than face a special meeting called to remove him. This week, we’ve learned who was behind that effort.Tom Connick, the Deerfield Beach attorney who represents Pamela Davis, executive director of the city Housing Authority, said that…
The U.S. Soccer Team is hoping that the Landon Donovan/Jozy Altidore combination on display this weekend against Turkey will stay sharp with just 11 days before the team opens World Cup play with a match versus Great Britain.Being a talented, charismatic young player who plays a glamorous position, it’s no…
This marriage was not built to last. Chaz Stevens had been the fiercest critic of the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority when in April he gained an appointment to its board. Since the moment he was sworn in, he was a marked man.Last week, when the agency learned that Stevens had…
If you noticed that the service at the Fort Lauderdale Blue Martini was really, really slow on Sunday, that’s probably because it was amateur hour behind the bar. YouTube celebrity and congressional candidate Allen West was mixing drinks as part of the bar’s Forgotten Soldiers Outreach event.That “Ron Klein on…
The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday morning:An internal report concludes that Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti’s agency has neglected measures meant to increase diversity. The sheriff is already being criticized for steering layoffs toward jail staff, which is dominated by minority deputies. [Miami Herald]Hurricane season has begun, and…
In remarks published yesterday here, on the website of Mother Jones magazine, spokesman for the union John Ristow appears to deny having told Juice that two Blanche Ely teachers accused of sprinkling holy water on another teacher would be “fully exonerated.” That quote appeared in this Juice post.Ristow has every reason to want to…
See for yourself. On the right, that’s the cover of the story I wrote in August 2009 about zoophiles — people who love and have sexual intercourse with animals. Now compare it with the image below, which goes with a single, “Round and Round,” by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, a…
