Gotta love your Key West neighbors; they’re only six inches away Ker-flush. Gurgle. Clunk. Ah, the sound of the neighbor’s toilet. Or, how about skritch-scratch-purrrrr? The neighbor’s cat snuggles into the outside cubbyhole beside your bedroom door — and taunts your kitties into hissing killers in the middle of the night. If one doesn’t want [...]
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Key West’s love-hate affair with its tourists A goodly portion of Key West’s 2.6 million tourists stops to primp in my office window on Whitehead Street. They don’t realize the mirror effect for them means they’re just inches from my to-them-invisible desk. I learn about their families, listen to their enthusiastic reviews of architecture, the [...]
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Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni indicted with his pal, Trenton, N.J. mayor, Tony Mack JoJo, the infamous Trenton, N.J., “quarter ton rapist,” loved his cigars back in the day. The cigar-puffing, 565-pound, poker playing sex offender loved Atlantic City, too. So there he was enjoying himself in the spring of 1982 at the Sands Hotel and Casino [...]
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