iPhone, iPod, iTacos. Can you tell that the folks behind this new taco place on Coit Road in Richardson have a techie background? Owner Tom Radecki, 36, was a big gamer back in the day -- so much so that he opened Shadow Lan, a sophisticated gaming spot on Coit, five years ago. But Radecki is also an entrepreneurial sort; and so, when the Quizno's next door to Shadow Lan shut down, he opened the kind of restaurant he himself would frequent.

Deconstruction of the Heights Space Age playground happened on Monday. Many people were on hand with many learning of it from stories on the Echo, the Dallas Observer's Unfair Park blog, and a Dallas Morning News story. Many people arrived hearing of its demise only that day.

It has been widely reported that an investor bought Promenade Shopping Center. Reports of this appeared in the Dallas Morning news, and the Dallas Business Journal. Actually that claim is slightly inaccurate.

There have been four residential burglaries reported within the Arapaho and Reservation Homeowner Association areas between November 15 and 16. Read the full article to get a description and get prevention tips.

On the sixth of October at the Texas Tech Homecoming game against Iowa State, this writer, an ex-Richardson High School Cheerleader, most likely performed as the oldest cheerleader on the football fields of Texas, maybe even America! Tech hosted a reunion of all ex-cheerleaders complete with reception, recognition, Texas Tech tee-shirts and a full two quarters cheering opportunity on the field.

We have gotten a great response since we unofficially launched a few weeks ago. In this article, we will tell you about our plans for the next few weeks.

Heights Park in west Richardson was created in the 1960s and a time when Richardson was about to explode. The Parks Department is currently reworking the master plan for the park. One thing that might not be included is the four special pieces playground equipment: The Rocket, The Radar, The Planet and the Submarine. Although it looks like the Rocket will survive, the other pieces might be in jeopardy. Although legal issues make it likely that they will have to be removed from service as actual playground pieces, I want to argue that their symbolic content says a great deal about what Richardson is and where is has come from. I further argue that we should keep the pieces in some from as artistic reminders of how far our city has come, where we came from and where we are going. There has also been some outside press coverage of the issue which we will review here.