Waiting for the boys to call in, as no doubt the mood’s shifted at both The Loft at Gilley’s and Tucker on Ross Avenue just a bit. Because, with 427 of 534 precincts reporting, the margin’s grown wider in the pro-hotel faction’s favor: 39,506 (51.28 percent) who voted for the…
Caught up with the mayor after he gave the obligatory interview to a television reporter, and he looked (and sounded) a little more optimistic. Asked why this election wound up being about him, he said that he disagreed. “They played that game, but it wasn’t about me,” he said forcefully…
With 252 of 534 precincts reporting, Mayor Tom Leppert’s got to be breathing a little easier — at least, for the moment. Dallas County Elections is reporting that the Vote No side has 30,056 votes, for 50.44 percent of the vote. CATOH can count thus far 29,535 votes. Which means…
Perhaps Carol Reed was right about closing strong: With 79 of 534 precincts reporting, the Proposition 1 race is only getting tighter — separated by a mere 207 votes now. At the moment, the pro-hotel faction has taken the teensy-weensy lead with 22,481 votes, or 50.23 percent of the vote…
Contrary to what’s been reported elsewhere, the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel party at Tucker on Ross Avenue is, in fact, open to the press and public. Matter of fact, not only is Merten on hand for the gathering, but so too are KXAS-Channel 5’s Ken Kalthoff and Trey Garrison…
Just minutes after the Mavs lost to the Nuggets on a last-minute three-pointer, a campaign staffer for the Vote No folks reported the early-vote tallies on a chalkboard in the middle of The Loft dining room. It was hard to discern any type of reaction from a crowd still stung…
Merten and Pulle are out; Schutze is about. They’ll offer their reports from hotel shindigs pro and con — and, just maybe, some council member throwdowns — later in the night, as Dallas County Elections begins kicking out returns from the day’s vote. But till then, the early-voting results are…
In mid-April, Larry North filed suit against Henry S. Miller Interests, which is looking to sell Highland Park Village, and Charter Holdings CEO Ray Washburne, who’s looking to buy the National Historic Landmark. As we noted back then, the complaint stems from a dispute over a lease extension: North, whose…
As he’s done throughout the convention center hotel campaign, Mayor Tom Leppert’s op-ed in The Dallas Morning News Thursday focused more on kicking Harlan Crow in the crotch than providing tangible reasons why voters should approve public ownership of a $500 million hotel. He wasted valuable words ripping Crow for…
After pestering would-be voters in the West End last week for their opinions on Proposition 1, Megan and Patrick headed over to Fair Park yesterday to see how folks were feeling about the city getting into the convention center hotel business. Patrick’s video’s here; Megan’s wrap-up follows. If nothing else,…
After several requests, the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau finally in March gave us a breakdown of the room nights that DCVB president and CEO Phillip Jones and other pro-hotel’ers claimed were contingent on building a convention center hotel. However, the names of the conventions were not disclosed because “some…
Several hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away from offering the breath test…
If, after years of YouTube, unintentionally funny strangers just aren’t that funny anymore, there may be only one cure, and — lucky you — it’s stopping in town tonight at the Lakewood Theater.The Found Footage Festival is a collection of vintage VHS clips lifted off corporate training videos, low-budget TV…
At the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s annual “State of the West” luncheon yesterday, nearly 200 people filled a sunny room at the Lake West YMCA to hear about the future of West Dallas — and, in a keynote address by Mayor Tom Leppert, still more about the convention center…
So, the powers-that-be at Levinson & Hill took note of the fact we done run out of Star Trek tees and sent over more — specifically, 73 smalls, 34 mediums and 20 larges. So, yeah, you’re in luck, especially those of you who yesterday requested the Spock hair shirt after…
Unfair Park had two visitors this morning: Enrique Hubbard Urrea, consul general for the Mexican Consulate on Stemmons Freeway, and Jesus Contreras Cantu, the consul of media affairs. They stopped by to address the lawsuit we mentioned yesterday in which the consulate is referred to as “a ‘lawless’ world where…
Speaking of players addressing the media in the most uncomfortable of predicaments, my I re-introduce one Leon Lett. Everyone remembers the former Dallas Cowboy’s all-time gaffes – at Super Bowl XXVII and in the snow against the Miami Dolphins in 1993. But afterward – unlike Dirk Nowitzki – Lett went…
Edwin “Bud” Shrake, the Fort Worth native and former Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News sportswriter, died this morning in Austin at the age of 77. He wrote a lot of essential books, including the best-selling sports tome of all time, but longtime fans will fondly recall his Willie…
Since November, a Dallas attorney with a familiar last name has been at odds with Facebook over its decision to allow Holocaust-denial groups to post to the service. The story’s generated some heat in recent days, culminating today with this CNN story in which Brian “Brother of Mark” Cuban, who…
Dallas Observer art director Alexander Flores was out and about last night — at the Target on Northwest Highway and Skillman Street, if you must know — and spotted this message scribbled on the window of a Land Rover Discovery. (Which reminds me: Time to wash off the “Seniors ’86!”…
Before Game 1: Doubtless. After Game 1: Defiant. Before Game 2: Determined. After Game 2: Depressed. Before Game 3: Desperate? Delusional? Dead? Fine, then you tell me. For my prediction of Thuggets in 5 to remain in play, the Mavericks have to win a game at home either tomorrow afternoon…
Several good Friends of Unfair Park have big plans to attend Tuesday’s real-estate confab at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre: the first-ever North Texas Realty Symposium. The schedule seems to cover all comers, with bold-faced panels planned for residential, retail, lending, commercial and apartments — and Schutze’ll take particular interest…
