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Liberty Burger closures lead this week's 5 most popular Dallas stories

Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines.

1. Liberty Burger restaurant chain closes 4 locations around Dallas. Dallas burger chain Liberty Burger is experiencing some shrinkage. Founded in 2011 by Mariel Street, daughter of longtime Dallas restaurateur Gene Street, Liberty has closed four locations, including its only branch in Tarrant County.

2. Get your free tree from the city of Dallas and beat climate change. The city of Dallas is introducing a new program that gives away free trees. Called Branch Out Dallas, the program provides residents with a tree at no cost for their home.

3. White-hot theme draws art world angels at Dallas' Two x Two First Look. The clouds parted, the rain cleared, and art magic happened at the Rachofsky House, the scene for the 2018 rendition of the annual Two x Two First Look. The official mission: preview fine art being auctioned off for Two x Two for Aids and Art, the annual event benefitting the Foundation for AIDS Research and the Dallas Museum of Art.

4. 4 Albertsons and Tom Thumb grocery stores in Dallas area will close. Four supermarkets in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are scheduled to close on December 1. Two are Albertsons stores; the other two are Tom Thumbs.

5. Beer haus restaurant with rock star cred debuts in Dallas' District 9. A new beer bar and restaurant is coming to Dallas with a charming local angle. Called District 9 Draught Haus, it's named for the East Dallas council district in which it resides, and with a celebrity tie, too.

Beer is on tap for Dallas' District 9.

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Beer is on tap for Dallas' District 9.

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Editor's note: The top Dallas news of the week begins with a big accolade for an area city. Plus, a massive mixed-use development is on its way to McKinney, and we introduce you to the Tastemaker Awards nominees for Dallas Bar of the Year. Get the details on our most popular stories below, then visit our event planner for weekend fun.

1. Dallas-Fort Worth suburb blooms as No. 1 best place to live in U.S. One Dallas-area city took the top slot on a new list of "the 100 Best Places to Live in 2025." The list — from relocation marketing platform Livability.com — put Flower Mound at No. 1 for its appealing size and affordability.

2. Massive mixed-use development coming to key intersection in McKinney. McKinney is getting a new $1.3 billion mixed-use development. Called Long Branch, it will be a 155-acre project at the northwest corner of US-75 and the future 380 bypass, consisting of housing, retail, office, grocery, and hospitality.

Long Branch McKinney Long Branch development planned for McKinney Rendering courtesy of Creation

3. 10 best bars in Dallas for 2025 craft cocktails and community. It's time to toast the 2025 Bar of the Year nominees in our annual Tastemaker Awards. The list includes new and not-so-new bars, ranging from a subterranean lounge to a bar perched high in a downtown hotel.

4. 6 Dallas bars unveil new on-trend cocktail menus for spring 2025. Dallas restaurants regularly roll out menus these days that follow the season, keeping things fresh by taking advantage of whatever's being harvested. But bars are getting in on the action, too, unfurling creative drink menus that make the most of seasonal ingredients and flavor trends.

5. Wildlife authorities now find avian flu in mammals in Texas Panhandle. The avian flu creeps closer and closer: According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), recent testing has detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in mammal species in Texas including foxes, raccoons, striped skunks, and domestic cats located in the Texas panhandle.