Subject: Bob Norman

• DeFede Was Hours From Death

  June 12, 2007

• Anonymous Bloggers Suck

  December 11, 2007

• BREAKING NEWS: Liberty City Seven Verdict -- Give up, Mukasey!

  December 13, 2007

• Christmas Present from a Hooker Expert

  December 25, 2007

• Local Photographer Carlos Miller Found Guilty

  June 19, 2008

• Herald Layoffs Detailed

  July 3, 2008

• Herald and Sun-Sentinel Brawl It Out Blog Style

  August 25, 2008

• Sun-Sentinel Shocker: People On The Internet Have Blogs

  September 15, 2008

• More Thoughts On The Sentinel's Palin Mom Blog Story

  September 16, 2008

• Friday Night Newsroom Dump

  September 26, 2008

• Our Favorite Palin Mom Blogger On Anderson Cooper 360

  October 8, 2008

• Kimbo Slice Wants To Slap Bob Norman's Mouth

  Last week New Times ran a story on the 14-second fall of Kimbo Slice and the death of EliteXC, entitled "MMA's Post-Kimbo Limbo" written by Bob Norman. The same piece ran in Norman's home paper, The Broward Palm Beach New Times, with the title "Kimbo Slice's a sissy: The fight that wasn't threatens to ruin a sport that isn't," along with the accompanying cover. The 6'2, 236 lb Slice is none to happy with our Broward brethren, and wants to go mano-a-mano with Norman as a result. "I gotta co

  November 13, 2008

• Fun with Analogies: Charlie Crist and Anderson Cooper

  Charlie Crist and Anderson Cooper have so much in common. They both have signature white, neatly kept hair. They both seem to have experience with unnatural tanning. Crist, though a Repubican, says he tries to keep his governing balanced and beyond party politics. Cooper, as a journalist, keep his own personal political prefrences silent. Oh, and there's also those recurring gay rumors each has to deal with, providing this fun little analogy you won't be seeing on the SAT anytime soon. Charlie C

  December 18, 2008

• Local Politician Has This One Really Good Joke She Needs To Tell You

  I know this is a little bit out of our coverage range, especially now that we have The Juice, but please forgive me, because I can't pass this up. Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter is involved in a bit of a scandal. As a state representative, she voted for legislation that benefited a fraudulent viatical company that employed her husband, spent $100,000 to refurbish her home, and lent her a boat. New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman has emerged as her most vocal

  January 28, 2009

• More Staff Cuts at The Herald

  Well, this is just not good news for anyone. Bob Norman at the Pulp got a hold of a Miami Herald memo announcing that there's more cuts coming to the paper, very soon. Publisher David Landsberg blames a decrease in ad revenue due to the hard luck of many local retailers and auto dealers. No word on how many cuts or which areas would be affected.Read more at The Pulp.

  February 5, 2009

• Ridiculous Bush-Era 'Liberty City Six' Case Just Won't Die

  Change may have come to Washington but the Bush era in all its absurd, truth-defying glory is alive and well in Miami's federal courthouse.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsMiami's federal courthouse, where the Bush era lives onThis morning, the third case kicked off against six Miami men who are accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and FBI offices. When they were arrested in 2006, now-disgraced wingut clown and then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez proudly trumpeted a victory against terrori

  February 18, 2009

• 30-Year-Old Whiskey in Its Prime

  Psssst....Drink Me!It isn't often that we New Timesers get a bottle of $200 whiskey in the mail. We did, not long ago, thanks to the folks at Canadian Club, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year with the release of a primo 30-year-old, 80-proof, white-oak-barrel-aged blended whiskey retailing for a cool two bills. That's priced well beyond the reach of even the most profligate New Times lushes; our admin assistant was obliged to hide the booze behind her desk, well beyond the reac

  March 9, 2009

• Herald Cuts Become Clear

  It's a municipal pastime in almost any city to riff on the daily paper -- and we've done our fair share -- but there's no delight in seeing those papers fall apart. Especially when names of the laid off start replacing cold, hard numbers. New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Bob Norman has a growing list over at the Daily Pulp, as does Random Pixels. The Broward staff, features writers, business scribes, and photographers seem to have been the hardest hit. A lot of these professionals' work I read eve

  March 11, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of January 29, 2009

  January 29, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of December 11, 2008

  "Anyone who lays out $6 million for a South Beach condo must be smoking some good stuff."

  December 11, 2008

• Letters from the Issue of November 20, 2008

  "I would never tell them to their face that I voted yes on Amendment 2 in Florida to avoid the inevitable fallout."

  November 20, 2008

• Letters from the Issue of November 13, 2008

  "I see it as a return to what journalism once was: small papers covering local areas with strong ideological slants."

  November 13, 2008

• Letters from the Issue of November 6, 2008

  "The pillars of Wall Street and corporate America are not giving money to Obama because he is a nice guy; he's a player."

  November 6, 2008

• Letters from the Issue of November 24, 2005

  November 24, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of April 5, 2007

  April 5, 2007

• Letters from the Issue of January 3, 2008

  "It's unacceptable that Commissioner Rebeca Sosa refuses to take responsibility for what she's done."

  January 3, 2008

• Letters from the Issue of December 6, 2007

  December 6, 2007

• Letters from the Issue of November 29, 2007

  November 29, 2007

• Letters from the Issue of September 29, 2005

  September 29, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of September 1 , 2005

  September 1, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of August 18, 2005

  August 18, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of November 1, 2001

  November 1, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  October 25, 2001

• Of Pain and place

  September 20, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  May 18, 2000

• DeFede

  September 30, 1999

• NPR, WaPo Refuse to Report That Outrage Is About Crist

  You've probably already heard about Outrage, the new documentary that aims to out closeted politicians who hypocritically vote for anti-gay legislation. Since you live in Florida, you've probably also heard that the film prominently features our own tanned gubernatorial whiz-kid and maybe gay guy Charlie Crist. In part through some fine reporting by New Times' own Bob Norman, the film offers no proof that Florida's guv loves dudes... "just a lot of compelling evidence," in Norman's words.But you

  May 12, 2009

• Cat Killer Suspect Gets Ordered to Undergo Evaluation, Might Like To Blow Up Own, um, "Stuff"

  Tyler's MyspaceShould've stuck to chillin', not alleged cat killin'.Tyler Hayes Weinman, the suspect in the cat killing spree, will not get bail his bail set at a hefty $250,000. He's also being forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. ''I can say the investigation is being led by a lynch-mob mentality, steam-rolling Mr. Weinman's constitutional rights,'' his attorney David Macey told the Herald. He also cited the fact he had little time to prepare for the bond hearing. Meanwhile, t

  June 15, 2009

• Al Malnik Won't Shut Up About Michael Jackson

  via TMZAl Malnik, the owner of the Forge with a few alleged Mafia ties, won't shut up about his "friendship" with Michael Jackson. He's going around claiming to anyone who'll listen that he was executor of Jackson's estate and has rights to Jackson's youngest son, Blanket. Now he has released a bevy of personal pictures to TMZ, which might be some of the clearest photos of Jackson's children to date. Though the bizarre masks and veils the kids wore during their rare public appearances added

  June 29, 2009

• Outrage Screening Twice in Miami This Month

  Outrage -- the documentary by Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick that explores the world of closeted homosexual politicians and casts Florida governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist as its leading man -- is set to screen twice locally this month. The Miami Beach Cinematheque will premiere the film this Friday, July 17, at 9 p.m. Tickets cost ten dollars for nonmembers. The film's website lists a repeat showing Friday, July 31, at UM's Bill Cosford Cinema. Most of the film'

  July 14, 2009

• The Avenging Angel of North Bay Village is Back

  Alex Izaguirre Early on in my ongoing tour of duty for New Times, I had the pleasure of telling the story of Fane Lozman, a Miami native who made a small fortune as a Chicago software engineer before coming home in 2003. That year Lozman settled into a nondescript houseboat off the waters of North Bay Village, a three-island city with an infamous history as a haven for the Mob and other Ne'er-do-wells.It wasn't long before the former Marine aviator became the village's vigilant watchdog. A

  July 16, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of August 6, 2009

  August 6, 2009

• Norman: Crist's Alleged Former Boy Toy Booked for Stealing Pastor's Daughter's Wedding Ring

  ​Remember Jason Wetherington? New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman penned a story about the lad, who apparently went around blabbing he had a hotel-room tryst with Gov. Charlie Crist in 2006. Wetherington also worked for Katherine Harris's hilariously failed 2006 Senate campaign. Anyway, per Norman, he's been charged with stealing three rings from the home of a family friend while he was housesitting. The friend: daughter of Wetherington's pastor. According to police rep

  August 10, 2009