Texas Music Project Former council member Veletta Forsythe Lill, at right Speaking of the arts, Mayor Tom just fired off a missive naming former council member Veletta Forsythe Lill as the city’s new Arts District coordinator. Lill (our Best Council Member in ’01) takes over the position previously held by…
Dwaine Caraway told the media during the Shaws’ funeral: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” A week after Rufus Shaw shot his wife, Lynn Flint Shaw, then turned the gun on himself, approximately 500 people filled St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in Oak Cliff this morning for their…
Rufus Shaw Services for Rufus Shaw and Lynn Flint Shaw will be held tomorrow morning, during a funeral mass at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in Oak Cliff scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. In addition to their son, Ian Shaw, surviving the couple is Rufus’ son, Rufus Shaw…
It’s been almost a couple of months since Unfair Park provided a wrap-up of the first installment of the mayor’s Trinity River Corridor Project Summit, where the big news was that Mayor Leppert is gonna shave off a year from the competition date for the Trinity Turnpike. All the peeps…
Tom Leppert to Urban Market crowd last night — something about, “Look into my eyes, like a shark’s eyes …” When I found out Mayor Tom was speaking at Urban Market last night, I was so there. After all, I frequent the Urban Café next door, during lunch breaks from…
Not from last night, sure, but perhaps another entry in our Write a Mayor Tom Caption Contest. As we noted yesterday, Mayor Tom was at Urban Market last night to talk with neighborhood folks about his big plans about downtown. More on that forthcoming this afternoon, but for now I’ll…
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 19 years since Spike Lee made Do the Right Thing, which put Lee on the map and also launched the career of Martin Lawrence. Looking to boost his street cred, former Southwest Airlines CEO James Parker wrote a book by the same name…
Prominent Dallas political activists Lynn Flint Shaw and her husband, Rufus Shaw, dead Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide by gun, were players in a tight-knit circle of advisors to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert—a group keenly interested in city and Dallas Area Rapid Transit contracts. According to e-mails provided to the…
Touchy, touchy: We originally called Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins last week to ask him about criticism he had received in some quarters for his handling of the forgery case against former Dallas Area Rapid Transit chairwoman Lynn Flint Shaw. That story was made tragically moot by the deaths…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Buzz talks about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’ defensiveness concerning criticism directed at him and his office. Watkins was asked about a few issues, most notably his decision to charge Lynn Flint Shaw with a misdemeanor instead of a felony for…
PBS.org Tom Pauken, owner of Dallas Blog Late this morning, Dallas Blog owner Tom Pauken posted a brief piece regarding the death of Dallas Blog columnist Rufus Shaw, in which he described him as a friend and touted his achievements as an SMU football player, community leader and writer. Pauken,…
When Kat Truitt walks to the neighborhood Central Market at Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue, she passes the Signature Pointe Apartments, which face her condominium complex on Milton Street. These apartments once housed Hurricane Katrina evacuees who brought significant crime into the neighborhood, Truitt says. Signature Pointe is now vacant,…
Courtesy Scott Dorn The Signature Pointe complex, which is indeed complicated In last week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Jim Schutze described his day at the annual meeting of DowntownDallas, or, as Jim calls it, an unofficial fief of the Belo Corporation. The story talked about the unveiling of the…
It’s been more than a year since Crow Holdings bought the old Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue, which will be the company’s new home — and happens to be across the street from Unfair Park headquarters. I was at the current offices of Crow Holdings on McKinney Avenue yesterday, where…
I’ve yet to attend a city council meeting I didn’t enjoy, and yesterday’s was no exception. How can one not feel satisfied after bearing witness to important votes on the convention center hotel and gas drilling, a council member admitting to witnessing a drug deal in progress and doing nothing…
Tomorrow’s city council meeting is filled with several interesting items — though once again, the addendum is where the most titillating items can be found. So much to get to: the convention-center hotel, natural-gas drilling, cell phones … You know what? We need more room to stretch out. Like maybe…
Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, more than willing to spend between $40 and $100 million of your money As we noted yesterday, Angela Hunt and Mitchell Rasansky are the only council members fighting for more information before the city uses taxpayers’ money for a proposed convention center hotel. During this…
Mitchell Rasansky’s “extremely upset” over the mayor’s plans to rush through this convention center hotel. Earlier this morning, Unfair Park mentioned that during tomorrow’s Economic Development Committee meeting, council members will discuss spending $41.3 million of taxpayers’ money to acquire land upon which Mayor Tom Leppert wants to build a…
Harlan Crow told Mayor Tom Leppert back in July that the hotel biz should be left to private sector folks — like, ya know, Harlan Crow. In his missive to the mayor, Crow outlined many reasons why spending taxpayers’ money to subsidize a convention center hotel is not economically viable…
After more than an hour of debate, the Dallas City Council voted today to approve two addendum items that will spend $170,000 of taxpayers’ money on a feasibility study to refinance the Dallas Convention Center and $500,000 of Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau cash on an option to potentially spend…
A look at tomorrow’s city council agenda would lead one to believe it will be a pretty typical day at City Hall. Sure, you can go see what happens to the homeowners from Little Mexico if you have a couple hours to burn whilst waiting for agenda item No. 61…
Where the fake cattle roam: the view from what remains of Little Mexico In last week’s paper version of Unfair Park, we looked at some homeowners on McKinnon Street who are being bullied by Uptown developer Harwood International. Gary Scott, an attorney acting as a middle man for Harwood, was…
