Thanks to Richard, the friend of Juice who located the video that is the basis for the Scottie Pippen statement below, about whether he’s a midge maimer. This appears to be footage of the scene in which Pippen — who didn’t know what he’d signed up for — was ambushed…
Before you start accusing basketball great (and Fort Lauderdale retiree) Scottie Pippen of being an abuser of midgets, you should hear him out. What? You never suspected him of beating midgets? Well, he did, but he was performing in a film he thought would be called A Tribute to Big…
A cast of celebrities who are now minority owners in our Miami Dolphins aren’t ready to let Land Shark Stadium lose its cachet as a Super Bowl destination. Yesterday, team management made a pitch to the South Florida media in hopes of convincing local governments to subsidize $250 million in…
It’s a scary thought, but that’s exactly the headline New York Times Magazine chose for its massive piece on the race between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist.As a portrait of Crist, it’s masterful. The governor’s obsequious way of talking about “the people” who elected him governor. His maddening talent for…
Here’s what’s new in Broward and Palm Beach:The Dolphins unveiled a $250 million renovation of Land Shark Stadium that includes a “translucent” roof to protect fans from the possibility of rain. It would have cost more, but the builders got a great deal from a Chinese manufacturer… [Miami Herald]A new…
Based on Tim Elfrink’s feature story in this week’s issue of New Times, it’s evident that Chinese drywall is anepic American disaster. He explains how greed and recklessness tripped a row of dominoes : from the Chinese manufacturers to the home builders to the developers, and finally the politicians. The…
On January 15, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will have a special session to vote on whether to fire its city manager of three years, Mike Mahaney. That motion was brought at Tuesday’s raucous meeting (video here). This afternoon, I spoke with the maker of the motion, Commissioner Bill Ganz.”If…
Slice Pizzeria in downtown Fort Lauderdale has sold a piece of its pie to Aaron Carter. The pop star showed up yesterday afternoon at the restaurant, on SE First Street, to sign autographs for fans. But, um, I’m not sure they did a terrific job promoting it. “We didn’t notice…
Thomas Jones, an officer with the Boynton Beach Police Department, has been fired following his arrest for domestic battery in January of last year. Jones was acquitted in a jury trial in April, but in a memo released today, Boynton Beach City Manager Kurt Bressner explained that the “legal standard…
Technically, Andre Dawson is the first Florida Marlin to be inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. But that’s merely a trivia question: Dawson retired as a Marlin in 1996 after having arrived here the previous year. We’re still waiting for the first player to be inducted into…
Citing “unnamed sources” in the North Broward Hospital District, Commissioner Robert Bernstein has told Juice that two of his colleagues — Commissioners Joseph Cobo and Mike Fernandez — will not attend the district’s January 27 meeting and that their likely motive is to avoid a vote on Bernstein’s motion to…
Every single South Florida television newscast now agrees: It’s cold. You could step outside of your home to confirm this yourself, but better to crank up the heat, turn on the tube, and enjoy our region’s nonstop, wall-to-wall coverage of this historic event. Fortunately, there is also slightly less obvious…
Mayor Peggy Noland is walking around Deerfield Beach today, chances are she’s got a big grin on her face. That’s because she’s close to finishing a task she’s been working on for nearly a year: the termination of City Manager Mike Mahaney. (Video here, on Chaz Stevens’ Acts of Sedition.]”In…
The 60 Minutes segment was called “A Crack in the Vault.” That “vault” contained all the billions and billions that wealthy Americans stowed in Swiss bank accounts, with the assistance of UBS, in order to cheat on taxes. And the person who cracked the vault was Bradley Birkenfeld, who gave…
… then either your Cobra’s already been swiped or this pack of thieves is working on it. From the press release:It’s unclear why the thieves are choosing the souped-up Mustangs and how they located four of them in the same upscale neighborhood in southeast Pompano Beach. Some of the four…
A news release that sounds like the opening scene from a movie inspired by a Marvel Comics series, from Boynton Beach Police:Police have responded to a bomb threat at Winn Dixie at 1620 S. Federal Highway. A man called the store to say he was going to blow up the…
Gerald Hemp is a totally ’80s bad guy — the kind you’d expect to encounter on Miami Vice. But it’s not just because Hemp was known to ferry huge shipments of cocaine by private plane. What made Hemp special was his facility for shifting identities and slipping out of prisons.Raised…
This is like one of those winters that the Ingalls family survived, isn’t it? Let’s try to press on, beginning with this morning’s local headlines:In what Commissioner Bill Ganz described as a “painful” decision, he brought a motion to fire City Manager Mike Mahaney. Tempers flared. Accusations were hurled. Video…
In this evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, officials took an initial step toward terminating Mike Mahaney as their city manager, a post he’s held for nearly three years.The motion was made by Commissioner Bill Ganz, who told his colleagues that he’d discussed the matter earlier that day…
