Farmers Branch

Wendy's Is Giving Away Frosties to Redheads Today

Wendy's is really excited about the remodel of some of its restaurants, and we're certainly happy for them. They're calling it a "completely updated dining experience." This Monday, July 23, they're even throwing a little party at their redesigned Farmers Branch location (4169 LBJ Freeway) and the ... More >>

Big Top for Tykes

How To Not Get Deported

So, you're an undocumented immigrant. Your great hope is to stick around, make a living and, some day, become naturalized. Unfortunately, our immigration laws are a tangled morass of inscrutability, insensible to the realities of a globalized world. You may have watched last week's Republican deba ... More >>

Despite Recent Closings, Cuquita's is Holding On by Serving Simple Food

Cuquita's doesn't look like much from the outside. Just another strip mall Mexican place, right? I paid the restaurant a visit the other day on the recommendation of a friend. I wanted an excuse to eat outside the loop, and Cuquita's, on Josey Lane in Farmer's Branch, promised traditional garb and ... More >>

Artizone, Online Purveyor of Local Goodness, Expands Its DFW Coverage and Suppliers

Supporting local farmers, ranchers, chef-driven restaurants or family-run anything is all good. But honestly? It's a beat down schlepping across all of North Texas collecting stuff from different spots. The farmer's market, Urban Acres, the cheese place, the wine place, the butcher, and what about m ... More >>

Mango's Noodle House: A Bit Pricey, but If You're Already in Farmers Branch...

Kristy Yang​Mango's Noodle House is not my, nor your, parent's kind of pho place. The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs reverberating from the speakers tipped me off. The restaurant's contemporary décor matches the music, but the food isn't quite as progressive. That's not to say that the presentation isn't p ... More >>

Hungry on DART's Green Line? Here's a Big Honkin' List That Might Help

​It took four years and $1.8 million to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history -- says DART -- but a little more than one month since DART's Green Line opened, it's been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on December ... More >>

Lots of Folks Object to Blockbuster's Store Closure Plan. Like Dallas County, For Starters.

The Blockbuster outlet at Lovers and Inwood closed shortly before the end of 2010.​As you'll recall, Blockbuster ended the year by announcing it's looking over all its leases and planning on breaking many of them, after which it'll shutter stores, dump inventory for pennies on the dollar and turn ... More >>

Om the Way to Serenity

ICE Says More Than 100 Were Rounded Up During Five-Day Multi-Agency Anti-Gang Sweep

​This just in from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: The agency, along with the Office of Homeland Security Investigations National Gang Unit and an alphabet's soup worth of local law enforcement agencies, spent the last five days sweeping Dallas-Fort Worth for gang members and their a ... More >>

At Bachman Station Today, DART Announces Greenlight for the Green Line

Somebody really shoulda brought Mayor Tom his shades. Awful bright at the Bachman Station today. And, hey, there's Farmers Branch mayor Tim O'Hare smack in the middle!​December 6 -- that's when Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials said the Green Line would be good to go with the completion of the f ... More >>

Into the Origins of Carne Deshebrada, the Meat that Makes the Taqueria

Flickr user El Gran DeeTacos de carne deshebradaIn Venezuela, it's called Carne Mechada. In the Caribbean, it's known as Ropa Vieja. The Mexican version goes by the name Carne Deshebrada. In any case, shredded beef is an important component of the cuisines of several south-of-the-border countries. ... More >>

Arlington PD Says It Doesn't Want to Be in the Business of Enforcing Immigration Laws

CopShop.com​While Irving makes the occasional headline with its use of the Criminal Alien Program -- which involves turning over to federal immigration officials people detained for any reason, even traffic violations --  top cops in Arlington have taken a stand against that approach. Instead ... More >>

What's it Worth to Move 200 Hilton Jobs to Dallas From Farmers Branch? Dunno Yet.

​Says this sneak preview of the city council's Economic Development Committee agenda next week, Dallas is considering forking over an economic development grant to Hilton Hotels, which is looking to relocate a regional headquarters to Dallas. Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavitkovsky, a ... More >>

NYT Profiles KC Law Prof (Still) Trying to Keep Illegal Immigrants Out of Farmers Branch

Kris KobachThe New York Times's Julia Preston profiles University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor Kris W. Kobach -- a name that might be familiar to residents of Farmers Branch, as Kobach's one of the co-authors of Ordinance 2952 and one of the lawyers who's been trying to get it enf ... More >>

Tiny Music

In Farmers Branch, Elizabeth Villafranca Has Finally Decided to Run for City Council

Steve SatterwhiteElizabeth Villafranca with daughter Natalie, who was 6 in the fall of 2006, when this photo was takenBack in November 2006, Megan Feldman wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a lengthy piece about Farmers Branch and then-city council member Tim O'Hare's fight to rid the city o ... More >>

Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad.

Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008

Brown Christmas

Latin groups ring in the season

On the Border, Off the Fence

Farmers Branch, Where Even the Legals Don't Feel So Welcome

Quiet, Kids. It's the Law.

Inaro, CherryTop Scatter, Intake

Friday, January 4, at the Door

Peace Out

Ever Wanted to Work In -- And, Like, Co-Own -- A Very Happenin' Coffee Shop?

"We Lost a Little Battle..."

Sam Lindsay to FB: Not Yet, Amigos.

Cin-Cin

It's not DiGiorno, it's Italia!

Did You Hear the One About the Farmers Branch Mayor Pro Tem Invoking Rosa Parks' Name?

And the (Early) Winner Is...

Because We Clearly Have Nothing Better to Do Tomorrow...

No More Love for Love Field Antique Mall, Damn It

March on Oak Cliff. Well, In Oak Cliff.

Damn Right That's What America's About, Sister

New Year's Resolutions

Resolution Guide 2007

C'mon Get Happy

Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

Farmers Branch: It's Scary

Hey, At Least We're Not as Bad as Guatemala

Mexico, Mexicos--That Ain't So Bueno

The Other Immigrants

What Would Darrell Ankarlo Do?

Penal Colonies?

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Sack of Kittens

Fat Like Me

Nothing our rotund reporter tried could help him lose weight. Finally, he attacked his belly through his melon. That's right. He's been hypnotized.

Hash Over

Keeping the pita puffed

Hedary's Lebanese Oven & Grill offers reverent interpretations of ancient dishes

Buzz

Power of words

Hispanics demand a school-board member's resignation after comments in the Observer

Evolving idiom

El Nuevo Leon offers subtle, delicious Mex-Mex mutations