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…
A 20-year-old man from Fort Lauderdale has been arrested and charged in the beating death of Rood Marc Desronvil on May 18 at the Normandy Village apartment complex in Lauderdale Lakes.Late that afternoon, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call of a large disturbance in the Normandy Village parking…
Baseball’s a funny sport. If you steal a bunch of bases, they put you in the Hall of Fame. But if you steal $15 million, they slap you with a felony indictment — even though Vincent Mazzuto sent some of that wealth to the Yale baseball team.According to today’s story…
Aww. Jeff Greene’s mom is adorable! And she’s just steamed by these “career politicians” who have the nerve to run for reelection against her sweet, rapacious son.But if we send Jeff to Washington, who will dry his mom’s dishes after he leaves? Seriously, I know this brand-new ad was designed…
If you regularly read this blog — and Bob Norman’s Daily Pulp — then you’re liable to develop a slightly cynical perspective, expecting that this will be the day you click over to learn your Broward or Palm Beach neighbor had been plotting murder and/or political mayhem. That feeling of…
A rundown of local news items on this Wednesday morning:A Boynton Beach family is devastated by an insurance company’s decision to renege on a guarantee that it would pay for the residential treatment of Ryan Crofutt, 25, who needs treatment for brain damage and was prepared to receive therapy at…
The University of Michigan today announced that its football coaching staff violated NCAA rules for the amount of athletics-related activity its players could perform and the number of coaches who could be employed. Although the investigation concluded that the violations were far less severe than portrayed in local media accounts,…
David Byrne, lead singer of the rock band Talking Heads, has filed suit against the Charlie Crist senatorial campaign, alleging that Crist has used a song that Byrne wrote, “Road to Nowhere,” in a commercial without having received permission from Byrne to do so.Check out the County Grind report from…
Attention, working-class mortals! There’s a crisis atop our local Mt. Olympus (the island of Palm Beach), where the high-society luminaries are in danger of having an ordinary Publix grocery store blight their otherwise extraordinary commercial space.At a recent symposium hosted by the Palm Beach Civic Association, 23 residents of the…
There’s no love loss between Mayor Joy Cooper and rabble-rousing Commissioner Keith London, but it seemed for a moment that there might at least be a period of détente after Cooper finally came around to agreeing with London that the city manager’s position needed a change.Judging by a recent email…
The Broward Teachers Union expects that two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach will be “fully exonerated” after school officials finish investigating a religious argument that occurred in a classroom March 11 in which an atheist claimed that two Christian teachers splashed her with holy water.”We expect…
A glance at the headlines for this Tuesday morning in South Florida:Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood are reporting that they had only half the number of murders in 2009 that they had in 2008. That should lead to an increase in the number of political figures claiming credit for decreasing crime…
My New Times colleague Brandon K. Thorp managed to reach the Rev. O’Neal Dozier today to ask him about the holy-water splashing incident that is the basis for the meeting today between Dozier and pastors from a dozen other local churches. Here’s what Dozier said:”It’s so simple. It doesn’t merit…
Last week, former Chicago Blackhawks General Manager Dale Tallon was hired for the same position by our humble Florida Panthers. Tallon’s stock is high, if only because the Hawks team he assembled is now on its way to the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, having completed a sweep Sunday of the…
The Danes love them some Allen West. Or at least one influential Dane does. Listen to Morten U. Jensen, writing last week in the nation’s largest daily paper:Skulle man være så heldig at være amerikansk statsborger og samtidig bosiddende i det toogtyvende valgdistrikt i Florida, så har man ved midtvejsvalget…
Two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach are in danger of losing their jobs after a March incident in which they allegedly doused an atheist teacher with holy water, the South Florida Times reports.From today’s article:Along with teacher Djuna Robinson, (fellow teacher Leslie) Rainer is accused of sprinkling…
Here’s what’s happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf is similar to the one that occurred more than 30 years ago in Mexico’s Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make…
Few activists in South Florida have had as much fun attacking public officials as Chaz Stevens. But now that he’s become a public official himself, Stevens has come under attack.At Wednesday evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority — Stevens’ second since being appointed to the board last month…
You can’t be a sleazy lobbyist on the national scale of Jack Abramoff without doing some dirty deeds in Broward County. That’s the setting for an opening scene in a just-released documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that the…
