Frisco

What Garland Road Really Needs is a Touch of Frisco's Class

Well, I guess Eric Nicholson and Jeff Siegel just know everything, don't they? Nicholson, our own blog editor here, and Siegel, a columnist for the Lakewood Advocate, have been having fun making of Lincoln Properties, a real estate company, over a scheme to get Garland Road in East Dallas re-named a ... More >>

There's Still Time To Discover

Leonys Martin's Long Ride to Center

The Rangers' newest prospect fled communism in Cuba for center field in Frisco. He won't be there for long.

Sci-Fi and Cookie Monsters Welcome

Cirque Du Soleil OVO: My Top 10 Observer-ations

Next time you're bored try some Slackwire. And, please, send me the video of you wiping out.​10. Just seeing the intricate structure -- erected in the Dr Pepper Ballpark's parking lot in Frisco -- is impressive. Calling it "The Grand Chapiteau" might be a little hoity-toity, but it's n ... More >>

Above Average Joe

Frisco's Building Its City on Rock & Roll

Good Friday: Kiss, Pixies, Daughtry, Drowning Pool, Harlem, Dungen, Lazer, Rusko, Sleepy Sun, STEW, Derek Webb, Cas Haley, Shonen Knife and More!

Harlem. Just your average pirate/cowboy/federale, rock band​This weekend sees a pretty stacked list of local shows and touring shows alike, but the biggest of all is probably the extravaganza happening in Frisco on Saturday. As we mentioned yesterday, Kiss, Daughtry, Pat Green, The Academy Is..., ... More >>

Giveaway: Three $20 Gift Cards and Pairs of Tickets To See FC Dallas Play Tomorrow Night Before Checking Baruch The Scribe and The Fox & The Bird at Lochrann's in Frisco.

​Listen: We probably won't be doing giveaways to the free, Thursday concert series at Lochrann's in Frisco forever. After all, the shows are free. But so long as Spune Productions, the coordinators behind the event, keeps making it worthwhile for us to send our readers to head up there and check t ... More >>

Commence the Madness ... at Hooters. Tonight: Frisco.

​My bracket's still perfect. Yours? By tonight I can almost guarantee a blemish or three. If you want to talk trash, compare notes or buy me a pitcher of beer and some wings, come out to Hooters in Frisco tonight for the first of my six-stop March Madness tour.

Judge Orders Mediation For City and Railroad Museum, Then Rules on TRO

Museum of the American Railroad CEO Bob LaPrelle and attorney William Brotherton before today's hearing​It was all hugs and kisses in Judge Martin Hoffman's courtroom at the George Allen today -- but only because before the city and the Museum of the American Railroad faced off over the museum's r ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Hong Kong Express

"It was the Kung Pao."​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Hong Kong Express4760 Preston, Frisco972-377-8850Promised delivery time: 45 minutesActual delivery time: 30 minutesScoring summary:Finding a place th ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to Unsilent Night 3 at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco

​On Sunday, from the afternoon and into the late evening, Third String Productions will present its third annual holiday-themed affair called Unsilent Night (not to be confused with this Unsilent Night). And as always, it's quite the mall punk affair: This year's headliners include A Day to Rememb ... More >>

Tinsel Author Hank Stuever Pays One Last Visit to Frisco and Does Not Sit On Santa's Lap

​I sent Hank Stuever, author of Tinsel, an e-mail this morning to see how his trip back to Frisco had gone this week (he wraps up a three-day stay with a signing in Fort Worth tonight before he heads down to Austin). He responded thusly: "It was great -- no effigy-burning or anything. People came ... More >>

The Other North Pole: A Washington Post Writer's Book About Christmas in Frisco

 This is probably a way-too-early heads-up, but I just opened the afternoon mail to find a copy of Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present, due on bookshelves 'round November 12 -- just in time for all your gift-giving needs. And, trust me, those living up in Collin and Denton counties ... More >>

Short Orders: Go Go Burger

Go Go Burger6129 Main St., Frisco214-472-2715Cute, the place is cute. So much so that it has a teenage girl atmosphere about it.In fact, five suburban kids sat gossiping behind me last time out. And I must say, teenage life in Frisco is really, really scandalous. Their hushed innuendos repeatedly bu ... More >>

Revolving Doors: A Month To Remember?

We were trying to think of any significant restaurant closings in Dallas over the last 30 days and nothing, besides that odd moment when Kavala in Oak Cliff shut down then reopened almost immediately. So, we had to call our buddy Teresa Gubbins and pry into her database-like brain.Thanks TG.Just gla ... More >>

Spam-ming The City; Maximo Effort

Don't call it McSushi, but finding a reasonably priced roll in the DFW area is about to get really, really easy. A restaurant with the convenience of fast food and low price points of grocery store sushi, Wylie-born Avocado California Roll & Sushi is already rolling for our neighbors in Dento ... More >>

Hotels, Clearly, Have Become the New Porn (NYLO, Aloft -- Yes, You)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Local American Idol Angle...

Star Ball

Home Sweet Auctioned-Off Home

Neighborhood Watch

See how it's easy bein' green

Tour de Frisco

Pedal hard for MS

Hey, Joe

Josephine's Restaurant has appeal and gobs of potential

Headers and Footies

Let's hope Red Bull doesn't give New York wings

Frisco Likes It Rough

Are You Ready For Some (More) Football?

Those Lemony Fresh Scents

It Is the Wiggles World, After All

Hog Hell | Call It a Day-O | The Champ | Yummy Chicken

Be a Celebrity!

That Kid Keeps Going and Going and Going...

RoughRiders Already in Toilet

Get Served

Letters

Sorry You Missed It Eyes Wide Open in Frisco

Letters

Can't Go Home Again

Plus: Busted; Inside Track

Letters

Frisco RFD Biased Profs Vinnie the Dork Parkland's Charity

Perfect Town, USA

Frisco wants to lure Andy and Opie with a Starbucks. Why is that an evil plan?

Best Art Classes for Kids

art-a-rama

Best Place to Dress Up a Nursery

Be-Dazzled

Best Reason to Drive to Frisco

Frisco RoughRiders

Phoned In

When inspiration calls, I listen...and then I type 1,250 words

Best Seafood Restaurant

9 Fish, Asian Fusion Sushi and Robata Bar

Fishing Trip

The excellent 9 Fish is worth the trek to Frisco

The Hole in the Doughnut

Carrollton missed the boom, but still hopes to attract restaurant business

Tale of Three Cities

Dallas independent restaurants learn from Addison, eye Frisco

Big Bore

Big Bowl just needs a little order

More Bang for Your 'Burb

Legacy Grill offers a reason to say, "Let's go to Frisco."