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She Left Her Fiancé For Puppets: April Brucker, the Ventriloquist

July 1, 2025

Words by Ambar Ramirez April Brucker grew up like every young girl does. With a love for Barbie, “Sesame Street” and being told that a woman’s biggest accomplishment in life was to find an established husband (who was preferably rich, but who you loved despite that). In a little town outside of Pittsburgh, born and raised in Bethel Park,

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Guns, Drugs and a Gator By Ambar Ramirez When the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to a tip about a house on the Northwest side being used to distribute drugs, they launched an investigation. JSO’s SWAT Team, Narcotics Unit and District 5 and 6 Task Force officers searched the home and

Weird Wild Stuff: July 2024

Words by Shelton Hull You know, every month the inclination runs toward

Weird Wild Stuff: June 2024

Words by Shelton Hull We’ll start this column with an update on

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April 18, 2024

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Words by Shelton Hull April Fools’ Day will have come and gone by the time you read this. We deliberately waited to file this column until afterwards, just in case anything interesting comes up on that particular day. And that is exactly what happened. So, in lieu of the usual

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March 21, 2024

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Words by Shelton Hull The late great gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson was one of the most influential men to ever do The Job. He, along with folks like Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Charles Bukowski, Studs Terkel and Tom Wolfe, were crucial to the development of “Alternative Newsmedia,” of which

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January 18, 2024

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Words by Shelton Hull 2024 is here, and so is this column, and year No. 3 begins now. This column is being written on Jan. 4, and you might think that’s hardly enough time to find enough fresh hell to fill this space. But oh, no, it’s like the man

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December 26, 2023

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Words by Shelton Hull Well, 2023 is almost over, and we have seen all kinds of weirdness this year. We have a Democrat as mayor of Jacksonville and a football team that’s actually good (despite the incessant fickleness of sports media, who are still getting used to it), both

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November 15, 2023

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Words by Shelton Hull Here’s some breaking news: Men are vain. You may know that already, if you’re a Carly Simon fan or just a woman in general, but this is extreme. “GQ,” which has been at the forefront of masculine culture for decades, recently ran an article about