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Frisco Says Exide Is Being Cheap about Potential Superfund Site Cleanup

Lead makes you dumber, even if you only eat or inhale just a little bit. (Don't take my word for it, see what the scientists are saying). So when Frisco became one of 21 places in the country that failed lead-air quality standards that the feds implemented in 2008, people pointed their fingers at Ex ... More >>

Barnlight Eatery in Frisco Promised Not to be So Frisco-y, and It's Not!

I am in Frisco. I am in a strip mall. I am in a strip mall anchored by a CiCi's pizza and Kroger. I am where culture goes to die. No, wait, I am where culture goes to live when its kid hits kindergarten. I go into this experience with an open mind because I need it to work: I venture north to Frisc ... More >>

Man Showing "Ebola Like Symptoms" Has Been Isolated in Frisco

A man currently being taken from a Frisco Care Now Clinic to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is reportedly experiencing Ebola-like symptoms. The city of Frisco released the following statement: "At 12:32 p.m. today, October 8, Frisco dispatch received a call from Care Now, 301 Main S ... More >>

Frisco Cops Need to Release the Dhawan Death Note Now, or We Have to Guess Why.

Forgive me if I restate something so obvious you had it figured out days ago without me, but I just want to make sure we all get why the note found by police in the Dhawan case in Frisco is so important. We need to know what the note says about the deaths of Pallavi and Sumeet Dhawan and what it say ... More >>

A Guide to Eating Out in Frisco

Our own not-so-little neighbor Frisco was named the second fastest growing city in America this year, right behind Austin. And while a lot of Frisco is composed of the sprawling housing developments that keep popping up to hold all of these people, those people have to eat, too. And some even like t ... More >>

Frisco Mayor: Friendship With Texas Legends' Del Harris Had No Bearing on City's $90K Court Purchase

It's a pretty good time to be in Frisco, if you are the Texas Legends. Last week the Frisco City Council agreed to spend $90,000 in taxpayer dollars to purchase a basketball court for the minor league NBA team to play on. By coincidence, Frisco Mayor Maher Maso is good friends with Del Harris, the ... More >>

The Cowboys' New Frisco Headquarters/Theme Park Looks Elaborate (Video)

The Cowboys' move from Valley Ranch to Frisco is moving forward. On Monday, the Frisco City Council took a look at some initial plans for the 66-acre site. Of course, America's Team can't settle for a tasteful office complex and modest practice facility. The keystone of the project will be "Cowboys ... More >>

Frisco Couldn't Punish a Speed Trap-Warning Pedestrian, So It Banned Standing in Medians

If there's any North Texas suburb known for having a healthy amount of pedestrian activity -- Wait, is there? -- it's definitely not Frisco. Frisco is better suited for people in cars. But while the city's sidewalks tend to be empty, it appears that the city is dealing with another, more sinister ... More >>

Frisco Just Banned E-Cigarettes in Public Places, But Why?

Electronic cigarettes look like cigarettes. They supply nicotine like cigarettes. Users exhale a puffy cloud like cigarettes. So they must be cigarettes, right? According to the Frisco City Council, yes. On Tuesday night, its members voted unanimously to ban the use of e-cigarettes wherever traditi ... More >>

You Can Now Go Fake Skydiving in Frisco

First off, let's make one thing clear. Contrary to what the company claims on its website, or what the above headline might suggest, iFly does not offer "indoor skydiving." There's no sky. No diving. Just a vertical wind tunnel and baggy jumpsuits. That said, iFly Dallas, the company's brand-new fa ... More >>

Frisco Shut Down its Exide Plant, but It May Keep the Waste as a "Community Asset"

While other upscale suburbs are known for having clean air and being far from dirty factories, Frisco went against the grain. The affluent north Texas suburb last year had the distinct honor of being one of only 21 areas in the United States that failed federal air quality standards for lead, thanks ... More >>

There's a Gun-Range Arms Race in North Texas, and North Richland Hills is Winning

When it was first announced, all the way back in January, the Frisco Gun Club billed itself as the nation's largest indoor shooting range. Nine months later, as club prepares to open this month, it has dropped that claim, focusing instead on its luxurious VIP lounge and culinary offerings. There's ... More >>

Frisco's Own Expert Critical of Exide's Plan to Clean Lead Smelter Site

The clean-up of toxic land around the former Exide lead smelter in Frisco hasn't even begun yet, and already it has drawn criticism from state regulators and now the city's own expert. In testimony submitted on behalf of Frisco in Exide's bankruptcy proceedings, William Wheatley, an engineer and for ... More >>

In Frisco, It's Pesky Residents Versus Brazos in a Fight Over High-Voltage Power Lines

Frisco residents worried about a power company's plan to install high-voltage power lines above ground next to their homes have been frustrated by the company's handling of their complaints in recent weeks, but this morning they can celebrate a momentary victory: Their city council last night passed ... More >>

TCEQ Staff Fears Frisco Parents May End Up Pulling Lead Chips "Out of Their Child's Mouth" At Grand Park

Grand Park, Frisco's planned $23-million, 275-acre paradise of the outer-ring 'burbs, will probably be contaminated with lead, and staffers at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality know it, according to documents and emails obtained by Frisco Unleaded. As we've reported before, the park's l ... More >>

The Morning News' Best Neighborhoods Are Really Rich, Really White and Really Far Away

When The Dallas Morning News announced three months ago that it would be rolling out the most definitive ranking of the area's neighborhoods in history, I put my money on Frisco. Not real money, mind you; if I had that, I could afford to commute from Frisco. But I was pretty sure, a certainty that w ... More >>

Battery Maker Exide Declares Bankruptcy as Frisco Attempts to Clean Its Toxic Legacy [Updated]

Pollution woes and lagging sales have driven battery maker Exide into bankruptcy for the second time in a decade. For the city of Frisco, the timing couldn't be more inopportune. In exchange for shutting down an Exide smelter that had been pumping lead and arsenic into the air and nearby Stewart Cr ... More >>

Group Fears Frisco Will Build a Grand Park Poisoned With Exide Lead

The city of Frisco plans to build a 275-acre, $23 million "Grand Park." It will be a regional attraction, a center to the city, replete with a festival green, a park for the kiddos and a "grand promenade" reaching out into a man-made lake with fountains of cool water. The plan is to dam Stewart Cre ... More >>

3 Stacks Smokehouse Brings Barbecue to Frisco. But Why?

Frisco is an odd place for anything that isn't a strip mall. All those strange brick buildings are meant to give it character, I suppose, but end up making the whole place look like the efforts of a pioneering architect who desires a standardized building, and has had southern European buildings des ... More >>

Frisco Tried to Ban Home Bakeries, Despite Texas' New Cottage Food Law

As previously noted on several occasions, last year the Texas legislature passed a law that allows home bakers to legally sell their goods from home under some very specific guidelines (Senate Bill 81). And each time I type out another article about this issue, I think, "Well, that should do it." It ... More >>

Edgefest 22 at FC Dallas Stadium

Sunday, April 22, at FC Dallas Stadium

Train Museum Was to Roll Out of Fair Park By Saturday. That Won't Happen. Now What?

​Just checked the calendar and noticed: The Museum of the American Railroad should be rolled outta Fair Park by ... well, by Saturday, would you look at that. Except, no: Two years after the city sued the train museum, telling it to chugga-chugga thee to those new digs in Frisco or a temporary hol ... More >>

The Conversation: What Role Do The Suburbs Play in the Greater Dallas Music Scene?

The burbs, brah.​The so-called urban sprawl has created an interesting scenario in the Dallas music scene these days. Back in the late '80s and '90s, Deep Ellum acted as a strong central location for the North Texas music community. But, over the years, as people have gotten more and more spread o ... More >>

City and Museum of the American Railroad Inch Closer to Derailing That Lawsuit

Via.​The boy and I swung by Fair Park Sunday, and on our way out we drove past the Museum of the American Railroad. Which reminded me: The museum and the city of Dallas, which sued to get those trains chugga-chugga'd to Frisco back in January 2010, were set to go to trial ... let's see ... why, at ... More >>

Big Notes on the Big Screen

Frisco's Music Scene Faces Its Biggest Hurdle Yet, As The Only Venue In Town Sets To Close

​Less than a year ago, we told the tale of Frisco's burgeoning music scene. But it seems that, as quickly as it appeared, the Frisco scene has now officially burned out. At least for now. Matthew Harber of Wellhouse Co., the entity behind Frisco's musical growth, confirmed to DC9 yesterday that th ... More >>

Railroad Museum at Fair Park Now Says It Has Money to Begin Building Frisco Site

Says the museum, the Sante Fe Tower that's been at Fair Park since '96 "will be the most challenging structure to move due to its excessive height."​There hasn't been much action in the city's case against the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park, which city attorneys took to court at the ... More >>

Scenes From Frisco At the Arrival of In-N-Out Burger

Photos by Patrick MichelsNever a dull moment in Frisco.As Alice related earlier this afternoon, there was a serious crowd out in Frisco for this morning's In-N-Out Burger grand opening. Covered in In-N-Out gear, giving friends a play-by-play while they stood around in line, they all had pretty much ... More >>

Spune Productions' Lance Yocom Wears A Whole Slew Of Local Music Caps.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Lance Yocom​When you consider all that Lance Yocom does for local and regional indie music, you have t ... More >>

In-N-Out Coming to Dallas Proper "This Month"

Jonas M. Luster​The Dallas Morning News' Leslie Brenner reported this week that the long-awaited In-N-Out Burgers near Frisco and Allen, the California chain's first foray into the DFW area, is set to open next week. But what about those of us who consider Frisco a bit too near the edge of civ ... More >>

While Rangers' Bullpen Continues Implosion, Neftali Feliz Says He'll Never Start

​Neftali Feliz will pitch Wednesday night in Frisco. But if it's up to him, he'll never pitch in the Rangers' starting rotation. While Texas continues to blow games -- yesterday it was Darren Oliver allowing Hideki Matsui's 10th-inning homer in a 5-4 loss -- and erase the warm-n-fuzzies from ... More >>

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Obligatory Edgefest 21 Bill Announcement Post

​On Friday afternoon, the folks at KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge announced the bill to the 21st edition of their recurring Edgefest concert series. And, after years of disappointing bill after semi-disappointing bill, this one, finally, packs an actual punch.At Pizza Hut Park in Frisco on Saturday, April ... More >>

Ah, Frisco, the City of Love -- and Crepes

​Who knew you'd be driving to romantic Frisco to experience some crepes this Valentine's Day? But that's where you need to go if you want to try the tasty sweet and savory crepes at Café Flair and pretend you're eating in Paris, the City of Love. While Café Flair, located in a Frisco strip ... More >>

Amazon Says That Frisco Is For Lovers ... Of Crappy Books and Movies

Click to embiggen. And em-heart-en. ​The people of Frisco buy so many romantic comedies, romance novels, relationship-help books and Barry White albums on Amazon.com that the website has ranked it the 20th "most romantic" city in the United States.Amazon's methodology was to ask a bunch of 12-year ... More >>

Fun, Animated

Bonus MP3: The Virgin Wolves -- "Virtue and Vice"

The Virgin Wolves​A few months ago, we ran a piece that outlined the music boom happening in Frisco. Loads of bands were traveling to the North Dallas suburb to play at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery. But, still, we wondered if the city would yield any of its own acts. In a pretty quick answer ... More >>

The Stuff of Legends

Depositions and More Delays in City's Case Against Museum of the American Railroad

From the Museum of the American Railway's computer-generated look at its future home in Frisco​In case you'd forgotten all about City of Dallas v. Museum of the American Railroad, rest assured: It's alive and well in Dallas County District Court, where, in recent days, there have been myriad filin ... More >>

Unwrapping the "Lead Gift" That'll Help Move Museum of American Railroad Outta Fair Park

​At right, that's Amtrak's Texas Eagle -- or, at least, the coach car and first-class sleeping car that pulled into the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park yesterday. It's part of what the museum calls "its long-standing partnership with Amtrak to re-introduce the benefits of rail travel ... More >>

The colliding past and presents of local music.

Puzzle + Games = Fun

Good Friday: Oysterfest, The Drums, Slayer, Glen Campbell, Jamie Lidell, Drive By Truckers, Marc Ribot, Jeff The Brotherhood, Black Crowes, Rush, and More

Jen Sorensen Frisco Rock City​For two weekends in a row, the biggest show in town is in Frisco. There is, in fact, something fishy going on up there, and  you can read about that here. While you're at it, make plans to attend the inaugural Oysterfest at Lochrann's Irish Pub and Eatery on Sat ... More >>

Giveaway: Two More Pairs to This Upcoming Weekend's Oysterfest at Lochrann's in Frisco.

​Let it suffice to say that there are a lot of bands playing at Lochrann's in Frisco as part of the inaugural two-stage Oysterfest deal going on up there this Saturday. We'd list them all, but, hey, the poster to the right takes care of that much for us.We will, however, say this: It's a nice mix ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets to See KISS, Pat Green, Daughtry, The Academy Is... and Drowning Pool at Pizza Hut Park on Saturday.

​The big show this Saturday at Frisco's Pizza Hut Park might be the weirdest bill we've seen in a while. You've got American Idol buttrocker Daughtry, opening for Texas-Country cheeseball Pat Green, opening for, well, KISS. Oh, and somewhere else along the line, Dronwning Pool and The Academy Is.. ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to Lochrann's Oysterfest on September 25

​Frisco's inaugural Oysterfest on Saturday, September 25, at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery is just a few weeks away. As we've mentioned more than a few times before, the lineup for this shindig, which includes Rhett Miller, Efterklang, Bowerbirds and about 15 of the area's best bands, is prett ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Oysterfest

We've already had a lot of things to say about Frisco's inaugural Oysterfest on Saturday, September 25. The bill, an impressive mixture of 15 touring and local bands on two outdoor stages at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery, includes Rhett Miller Bowerbirds, Efterklang, Telegraph Canyon--you get th ... More >>

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Death To Springfield

100 Favorite Dishes: Shredded Pork Sandwich at Mojitos

​ As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on th ... More >>