iPhones, for all their glorious, touch-screeny goodness, are fragile little things — it hangs up on your mom if you hold it in your left hand, data speeds are spotty with some carriers, and the screen cracks easier than a jailhouse snitch with an upcoming parole hearing. But for all…
It sounds like South Florida from the very first paragraph.It’s a story from ABC News about a new medical procedure in which women, many of whom are preparing to squeeze into a wedding dress, get a feeding tube stuck up their noses and then walk around with it for ten…
A new poll of Florida voters was released yesterday with all kinds of juicy numbers about politicians on both the state and national level. The full report is included at the bottom, but there are more facts in it than one blog post could ever hold.The poll was conducted by…
Yesterday, we brought you the details of Allen West’s 2012 campaign contributions — how he’s pulled in more than $1.8 million between January and the end of March, with more than half of contributions from donors giving over $200 coming from outside the state.He has $3,334,632 left in his war…
Angelmi Gutierrez is a 20-year-old Coral Springs man who just can’t seem to stay on the right side of the law — he’s got a rap sheet that includes charges for speeding, running a stop sign, running a red light, battery, criminal mischief, multiple charges of burglary and theft, and,…
Barbara Britton, making a rare appearance outside the home where she has been on house arrest since 2010, was in court yesterday to plead guilty as an “accessory after the fact” to the murder of David Jackson, the father of her son, in June 1988.When Judge Raag Singhal declared her…
Academics do a lot of weird studies to get published. The most recent example involves a professor named Nicolas Guéguen hanging around some bars in France to figure out if people with tattoos and piercings are more inclined to get shitfaced than people without tattoos or piercings. How does one go about getting…
The Miami Marlins’ new shortstop is missed by his former team. Jose Reyes spent the first nine seasons of his career with the New York Mets, leading the National League in stolen bases three years in a row (2005-2007), hitting for 99 triples and winning the NL batting title last…
Everybody had a good, amused chuckle when the Florida Legislature finally passed that antibestiality law last year — “Oh, Florida,” everybody said, figuring the thing would get relegated to cheesy lists of weird laws, in between the one about washing your house on Tuesday afternoons and the one about eating…
Allen West has an interesting fundraising strategy — while it could be paraphrased as “I said something asinine please give me money,” he actually says, “I need you to stand with me against attacks from the liberals and the distortions of the corrupt liberal media. Everyone who stands with me in…
It’s amazing what a politician will say when he doesn’t think the press is around.Mitt Romney, who’s the subject of this week’s cover story, held a closed-door, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach Sunday night, and, though he has been irritatingly vague in his publicly announced plans for his potential presidency,…
We recently brought you the story of the murder of Fort Lauderdale multimillionaire Ron Vinci, for which his girlfriend Catherine Pileggi is awaiting trial. In addition to the accounts of their lives before the murder, there are things that don’t make sense and a mysterious poisoned bottle of gin. But…
The Davie Republican with ties to the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service is no longer vying to represent western Broward in the state House.Merick Lewin submitted paperwork to withdraw from the District 97 race on March 28, less than three weeks after the state Legislature passed a bill that could threaten profits…
Broward County announced last week that Craig Mallak is the new chief medical examiner and director of the Office of the Medical Examiner and Trauma Services. He’s got a long résumé that includes a stint as medical examiner of the U.S. Armed Forces, where he ended up being the guy…
Normally, the Pulp would never consider a politician’s hairstyle news, but U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Weston) is a special case. For some reason, the internet hates her hair. Her tightly spiraled, dyed-blond curls have been called “angry perm” and “nappy,” and Rush Limbaugh once accused her of using mayonnaise…
The cats of Broward County are about to start churning out babies, and residents are being asked to help care for the incoming wave of orphaned newborn kittens.”What’s happening is that we’re getting into what we call ‘kitten season,’ which is the high time for cats to breed,” said spokeswoman…
Last June, our cover story My Father’s Bones told the sprawling, stranger-than-fiction tale of a son searching for a father who had been killed by the husband of his mother, urged on by her father. Yeah, it’s complicated. The victim was David Jackson, whose bones were found buried near the…
Charges for DUI and driving with a suspended license have been filed against former WQAM-AM (560) sports radio host Sid Rosenberg, who was arrested April 5 after police say they found him crying and vomiting in the middle of the road.His arraignment has been scheduled for April 30 at 9 a.m., according…
Allen West has been getting a lot of bad press lately — news outlets across the country, including this one, latched onto his declaration that “there are 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party.”He’s since moved past that assertion and onto the (slightly)…
The Broward County Health Department on Friday afternoon announced that it has confirmed four cases of pertussis, three among school-aged children and one case in an adult. More commonly known as whooping cough, pertussis is a “highly contagious respiratory disease” that can cause “permanent disability in infants and even death.”While all of that…
We’re a little more than six months away from Election Day, and you know what that means — it’s time to brace yourself for attack-ad season.Florida Republican Rep. Cornelius “Connie Mack” McGillicuddy sent one out on the airwaves yesterday that didn’t have very much content in its 30 seconds, but…
Kelly Perez and Orlando Moncada make a living getting people sexy bargains. They’re two of the folks behind the Coconut Creek-based SensualSteals.com, which offers shoppers a different discounted item every day. (Its “Friday the 13th” special was a Jason-style hockey mask made by Fetish Fantasy Extreme at 45 percent off.)But…
