I received yet another in my email inbox just a few minutes ago. This one features Ashley Flores, a supposedly missing 13-year-old. The picture is haunting. The message, purportedly by Ashley’s mother, is heartbreaking. There’s only one problem. It’s fictitious. All it took was 30 seconds on www.snopes.com to discover the truth. Well-meaning people fall for these [...]
I have one question – and it isn’t rhetorical. Would someone please explain the obsession with former American Idol contestant Jessica Sierra’s public meltdown? After her most recent arrest, she made the front page of both newspapers and led newscasts on at least two local television stations. But I just don’t get the fascination. What am I [...]
It seems Paula and Randy White of Without Walls International Church in Tampa are so fond of Texas pastor, Bishop TD Jakes, that they gave him a Bentley for his birthday. A Bentley. Apparently, Jakes took the car. I’m not sure which model. But Bentleys range in price from $169,000 up. That outrageous expenditure and others by the Whites [...]
This is a little late, but not for lack of admiration. Ralph Smith and the Computer Mentor Group hosted another very successful tech bowl Oct. 27. A team sponsored by Microsoft that included Eric Castillo, Jorge Martinez, Jarred Futrell, Anthony Pritchett, and Gordon Kratz took first place in the competition that was held at the Hillsborough [...]
The St. Petersburg city election was held Tuesday and almost no one showed. A paltry nine percent of the registered voters bothered to cast ballots. Only 14,500 of you showed up. That’s a record low, by the way. Turn-out was so sparse that as I walked in to my precinct at about 2 [...]
You don’t have to play golf to have a ball at Party on the Green Friday, Nov. 16, from 7 p.m. until whenever at the Palm Ceia Country Club. You can even score a hole in one (pardon the golf pun) by attending the gala that benefits the Gift of Adoption Fund, an organization that [...]
If you’re straight-laced, uptight, buttoned up, repressed, you probably won’t want to wade through the first two minutes of this video clip of a 2006 Arsenio Hall show to reach the most hilarious bit ever featuring a tiny Jewish sex expert who once trained as a sniper in Israel. While she and Arsenio visit an L.A. [...]
Pinellas County school board member Nancy Bostock made a couple of anguishing decisions recently. First, after months of trying unsuccessfully to find affordable inpatient mental health treatment for her emotionally disturbed adoptive son, she and her husband Craig are relinquishing custody of the boy to the state so he can hopefully get the intensive [...]
I’m not sure how to tout this. As a free concert with a dog walk, or a dog walk with a free concert. So I’ll start with Tommy’s group, the Johnny G Lyon Band, which will give a free concert at Al Lopez Park Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon. But don’t come unless you like dogs [...]
