The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite hairstylist. Text the code corresponding to your pick from the list below to 61721.The results will appear in our annual…
Businessman and onetime Republican tour bus occupant Herman Cain says unequivocally that he thinks Congressman Allen West should be the Republican vice presidential nominee.Cain was on the Steve Gill Show yesterday when the radio host asked, “If Mitt calls you today and says, ‘OK, Herman, who should I pick?’ who would…
UPDATE, 4/11: He’s been fired, per the Sun-Sentinel.Original post, 4/10:Last Thursday, prominent South Florida sports radio host Sid Rosenberg had a bad night. A really, really bad night. You already know he was arrested and charged with DUI and driving with a suspended license, but the details… woof.According to police, Rosenberg…
Good news! There is finally a way to help pay for George Zimmerman’s living expenses while he hides from the angry hordes seeking “justice” for Trayvon Martin. It looks like the site went up late yesterday, and MSNBC’s Mara Schiavocampo confirmed with Zimmerman’s attorneys that it was in fact him.The…
Two major horse owners’ associations are once again miffed by a local casino giant’s efforts to conduct races in order to keep a second gambling permit under Florida’s twisted rules for pari-mutuel casinos.Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach usually runs thoroughbred races, according to an extensive contract with the Florida Horsemen’s…
Earlier this year, Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF announced that a massive drilling rig had started operating in “ultra-deep water” in the Straits of Florida, somewhere between Cuba and the Keys. One of the more problematic aspects of the operation is the dearth of information about where the rig is…
The National Voices for Equality, Education and Enlightenment is a South Florida-based antibullying organization. It’s holding a “VIP Reception and Recognition Ceremony” tonight at the Hard Rock with a “special appearance” by Creed frontman Scott Stapp and a “lifetime service award” being given to Liza Minnelli. Neither is a stranger to…
The Miami Marlins’ season started Wednesday. By Sunday, news outlets across the country were writing about all the people calling for manager Ozzie Guillen’s resignation.The hubbub is over an article from Time magazine that quotes Guillen saying pretty much the one thing Miami public figures should be told not to…
The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite local artist. Text the code corresponding to your pick from the list below to 61721.The results will appear in our…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man they say is connected to two muggings at the end of March — they want you to know that he’s six feet tall, gets around in an old, gold-colored Nissan, and is… fat.In an announcement headlined “Big Boy Wants a Purse,”…
Florida Congressman Connie Mack hasn’t been using his real name. Not in Federal Election Commission filings, not in his Congressional bio, not in federal financial disclosure documents. Even on forms that ask for “Full Name” or “Name of Candidate (in full),” he writes — and later signs — “Connie Mack.”It’s…
The Broward County Commission passed a resolution Tuesday to pursue a strategic plan for instituting “no kill” animal shelters, which would greatly reduce the number of animals housed in the county’s two shelters that are put down.Would it make that big of a difference? For the 9,672 animals Broward County…
Remember WordPress.com? Back in 2003, it was a brilliant invention designed to put any pajama blogger on the cutting edge. That edge is clearly where Frank Biden belongs.Biden, brother of the Amtrak-riding vice president, has entered into the wild world of WordPress to tout his for-profit chain of charter schools,…
An eight-foot-long Burmese python captured in Miami-Dade last year either watched Cool Hand Luke far too many times or was just very stupid and very hungry.According to a new study, the snake puked up ten intact bird eggs soon after the Miami-Dade Venom Response Program captured it. Meanwhile, the remains of…
Felony charges have been filed against 24-year-old FAU student Jonatha Carr, according to her sister, in connection with her classroom outburst in which she was filmed threatening to kill a professor and classmates.Her family spoke to the Pulp last week about Carr’s long struggle with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Despite…
UPDATE, 4/10: The not-so-tame police report is up.UPDATE, 4/6 12:15 p.m.: Hollywood Police Department has confirmed that Rosenberg was arrested Thursday on alcohol-related DUI charges, but that the police report would not be ready until next week. Broward Court Records now also indicate there are as-yet unfiled charges for DUI…
The Sun-Sentinel announced last week that its website would soon have a shiny new feature — a paywall, erected around the main daily paper serving Broward County.The paper will start “offering memberships” on Monday, though details have been in a letter to readers from Publisher Howard Greenberg that outlined what…
After Wednesday night’s dramatic meeting about puppy stores in Hallandale Beach, we caught up with Michele Lazarow, who has been the strongest voice behind getting a puppy-store ban passed in that small city.Lazarow — who says she doesn’t want to call herself an “activist” because it reminds people of PETA…
Congressman Allen West deserves some credit for holding an event at West Palm Beach’s Century Village senior community Wednesday — there aren’t many indications he has too much support there, which was emphasized when the 1,200-seat auditorium had about 75 people in it, according to the Palm Beach Post.But in…
A former special-education teacher at Mavericks High in Palm Springs has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that the charter school is inflating enrollment records and fabricating grades.Angenora Mechato’s suit is the third whistle-blower case to be filed against Mavericks in Education Florida, a for-profit, West Palm Beach-based company that manages…
UPDATE, 3:24 p.m.: Tyson’s been fired, according to the Sun-Sentinel.Original post, 10 a.m.:Brace yourself — this one’s a story about the Boca Raton Police investigating an unmarked Lantana Police car crashing into an unmarked Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office car. There’s been a lot of crime stuff on the Pulp lately,…
The Florida Lottery’s popularity is shooting through the roof, according to officials, who raked in $1.2 billion in sales in the first three months of 2012 alone.The sales for both the quarter and for March are all-time records for the state; March saw almost $429 million in lottery sales, beating…
