Snowing? Sleeting? Has it warmed up to the the upper thirties? (Or, you know, not-quite-four degrees for you Celsius types.) Wearing a scarf? Wearing pants? You need to get in a Florida state of mind. (Seriously, we could use the tourist dollars.) But, if you don’t have the money to fly to Miami, you can…
A cautionary tale as we approach one of the year’s busier travel seasons: Snakes on a Plane got real on December 3 when an EgyptAir pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger aboard a flight from Cairo to Kuwait was bitten by a snake. His own snake, apparently. Ahram Online reports:…
Of the Miami New Times recent list of Florida’s 24 Dumbest Criminals of 2012 we say, “Only 24?” For when it comes to wackadoo crime, Florida is the gift that keeps on giving. (In May, a guy ate another guy’s face. Need we say more?) But amid the tales of bad and bizarre behavior, this…
Wikipedia lists John D. MacDonald as a prolific writer. Ya think? Seventy-eight books with more than 75 million copies in print, plus nearly 500 short stories? That’s not prolific, that’s Brobdingnagian. Compare that to Raymond Chandler, whose career output was six novels and about two dozen stories. But there is more than just tonnage to…
First, I need to tell you that John D. MacDonald has left us a huge legacy of pulp, hardboiled fiction, and thrillers written in both novel and short story form. The scope of his work is nothing short of amazing. (You did know that Cape Fear was based on his novel The Executioners, right?) But…
So you’re just catching on to the fun of The Glades? Here’s a quickie primer: Jim Longworth (played by Matt Passmore) is a former Chicago detective who relocated to fictional Palm Glade, Florida, after a misunderstanding involving his boss’s wife. (Up until this season, this was explained in the opening credits.) He joined the Florida…
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen is a kid-friendly crime novel that’s fun for adults, too (available March 27, 2012). When Wahoo Cray’s animal-wrangler dad takes a job with a reality TV show called “Expedition Survival!”, Wahoo figures he’ll have to do a bit of wrangling himself—to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show’s boneheaded…
After a second season of growth for a little-crime-show-that-could, now The Glades is A&E’s “flagship” which has just been renewed for a 3rd season, according to Deadline. That means Kiele Sanchez will be back as Callie, an R.N. on-track to make M.D. with a personal life complicated by an estranged husband in the penal system,…
For many years, The Smoking Gun has been publishing booking photos of celebrities. It’s all public record, but it does seem a bit like kicking someone when they’re down. How sorry we feel for the perpetrators, of course, has a great deal to do with what they are arrested for. Still and all, these celebrities…
I like The Glades, but most of the people I talk to around South Florida don’t. They tell me “the main actor’s a goof” or “the FDLE doesn’t really work that way.” Yeah, because burned spies really get away with running around blowing up parts of Miami every week and DNA testing moves as fast…
