Subject: John Lewis

• Got Time to Kill? Here's That 166-Page City Hall Indictment You've Been Waiting For.

  October 1, 2007

• DOMA XXI: And The Nominees Are...

  This year's trophy will look nothing like the Heisman. Sorry to get your hopes up.A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began--somewhat quietly, I admit.  Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were done, more than 80 nominat

  June 2, 2009

• Running Down That Hill: Yet Another Person Pleads Guilty in City Hall Corruption Case

  Hey, Don Hill, how many more folks pleaded guilty today in that City Hall corruption case?And then there were three -- which is to say, three folks who have pleaded guilty in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, scheduled to go to trial in June. Taking his cue from Andrea Spencer and Allen McGill, lawyer John Lewis -- among the 14 named by the feds in the low-income housing development corruption case at Dallas City Hall -- today entered his own guilty plea. And, in exchange, he will agree to

  March 6, 2009

• "There Will Never Be a Paper Trail." Whoops.

  OK, Don Hill, raise your finger every time you hear a defendant in the City Hall corruption case plead guilty.This afternoon, as promised, the U.S. Attorney's Office forwards John Lewis's plea agreement -- the one that finds him promising to testify against former Dallas City Council member Don "What Me Worry?" Hill. You'll find that and two other absorbing court documents filed today -- a little light weekend reading for those of us working on our novels about the city that likes to live large

  March 6, 2009

• Not So Hot

  August 1, 2002

• Paper Trails

  Morning News waits and waits to acknowledge CBS-11's scoop of an ethically challenged state rep

  November 17, 2005

• Southern Hospitality

  Surprised that Dallas' massive immigration rally went so well? Then you must be a Yankee.

  April 13, 2006

• Blues to the Bone

  Etta James makes you want to have the blues

  July 14, 2005

• DART Guns

  Transit agency kisses off gunplay story

  July 8, 2004

• Met Memories

  Sure, this column is full of cuss words and self-indulgence. So was my old paper.

  October 5, 2000

• At This Rate, Don Hill's Gonna Be Awful Lonesome When His Trial Starts

  Hey, Don Hill, how many weeks till your trial starts? Wrong. It's two, not one.First, there was Allen McGill. Then, Andrea Spencer. Then, John Lewis. To that roster of names of folks who've pleaded guilty in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, add a fourth: Kevin Dean, president and a principal of Kevin Dean Asphalt Technology and a concrete subcontractor who today in a Dallas federal courtroom copped to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion for which the mandatory max is five years in p

  June 8, 2009

• Don Hill Files Motion to Dismiss, Claiming Government Withheld Exculpatory Evidence

  Kimberly ThorpeDon Hill and Sheila Farrington filed a prayer of their own in federal court yesterday.Late yesterday, Don Hill's PR man, Ken Carter, sent to media an objection filed in federal court in which the former Dallas mayor pro tem and his wife, Sheila Farrington, want U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn to keep from the public's prying ears the feds' "audio-visual evidence" against the two in the public corruption case set to go to trial on Monday. Reads the important part of the legal doc:

  June 26, 2009

• Prosecution Looks to Right Stumbling City Hall Corruption Case By Calling Brian Potashnik

  Sam MertenDon and Sheila Hill left the courthouse Tuesday afternoon in good spirits.An admittedly nervous Steve Williams spent all of Tuesday afternoon on the stand discussing his eight-year tenure as Don Hill's administrative assistant, pushing the anticipated debut of developer Brian Potashnik to this morning. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham paused his redirect examination of Williams as U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn wrapped up the day, so Williams will be back for at least another 30

  July 22, 2009

• Before Bill Fisher's Turned Over to the Defense, Ex-Council Member Makes Cameo

  ​Today's testimony from Bill Fisher, the government's wire-wearing witness in the City Hall corruption trial in federal court, brings us an even more explicit bribery-extortion scenario than we have seen before in this two-months-old trial.Fisher is alleging a series of events that followed a meeting with hair-care magnate Comer Cottrell and Kevin Dean, a paving contractor. At that meeting -- a tape of which was played last week -- Cottrell promises to help Fisher get former Dallas Mayor Pro

  August 17, 2009

• Jim's Play-By-Play From the Inside Baseball Coming From City Hall Corruption Trial

  New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection/Library of CongressAt this point, Schutze is like the Mel Allen of the City Hall federal corruption trial.​Today at the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial at the Earle Cabell, defendant John Lewis, who has pleaded guilty and is testifying for the government, is being cross-examined by the defense. Lewis says he was part of a plot to buy votes from former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, the lead defendant, for a developer of tax-subsidized aff

  August 20, 2009

• JOHN LEWIS BAND

  October 29, 2009

• Good Friday: Butthole Surfers, Peaches, MEN, Digital Leather, King Bucks, Ghoultown, John David Kent, Horrorble Party, Play-N-Skillz Halloween Bash, House Harkonnen and More

  Don't forget your costume. Here's one idea.​Love it when Halloween falls on a weekend, as is the case this year. What that means for music fans is lots of costume contests and tribute nights, and bands and fans will likely be even more intoxicated than usual--so be careful out there. Recently someone told me his drinking-and-driving strategy, which is to look for someone who appears even drunker than he is and tail them. I totally do not endorse that, and only share it so you can know what to

  October 30, 2009