Email Author Forrest Norman

2006 Stories by Forrest Norman

• Yeshiva Dustup

  published July 13, 2006

  Zipping around his Aventura office on a recent afternoon, Jeffrey Herman doesn't look much like someone who regularly hears real-life horror... More >>

• Thrashed

  published July 6, 2006

  The splinters were so big that Robbie could see them from the top of the ten-foot-high ramp. Despite his kneepads, he knew the wrong fall on the... More >>

• The Drink-'Em-Up World Cup

  published June 29, 2006

  Not long after noon on June 11 at the Playwright Irish Pub in South Beach, the predominantly pro-American crowd was silent. It had nothing to root... More >>

• Wedding Trasher

  published June 15, 2006

  Miami has been good to Nicole Waters and Viviana Villagra. The young couple — Waters is 30 years old, Villagra 31 — met here, fell in... More >>

• Key Issue

  published May 11, 2006

  Sunlight gently filters through the royal palms lining Key Biscayne's Village Green and then settles softly on the tanned and healthy shoulders of... More >>

• Vote for Barns

  published April 13, 2006

  Voters approved Miami-Dade's largest bond referendum ever ($2.9 billion) in November 2004. Intended to improve major public works, it included $30... More >>

• Hostile Hostel

  published March 30, 2006

  On the night of Thursday, March 16, five University of Minnesota students turned off the light in their Miami Beach hotel room and headed out to... More >>

• High-Wire Hunt

  published March 23, 2006

  Robb Annable gripped a metal girder with one hand and peered down at the wind-whipped water 150 feet below. His pontoon boat, rolling on the... More >>

• Political Slime in Surfside

  published March 16, 2006

  Like a deranged tooth fairy, someone has been passing out flyers to citizens in the tiny city of Surfside at night. They're not car wash... More >>

• Booze Ban in Babylon

  published February 16, 2006

  The fluorescent lights at Club Madonna turn the multicolor carpeting into a hallucinogenic swirl, a riotous assault on the eyes that parallels the... More >>

• Gamers Give Flowers

  published February 9, 2006

  For two decades Jack Thompson has staked out the moral high ground, heaping derision on foes like Luther Campbell and Janet Reno in the late... More >>

• The Battle of Biscayne

  published February 2, 2006

  Desire and Felicity shamble down the scorching sidewalk, sodden makeup smearing sullen faces. They're looking for the telltale sign from a driver... More >>

• Golden Conflict

  published January 19, 2006

  Judge Alan S. Gold has had a laudable nine years on the federal bench. Since his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1997, the former... More >>