Little Elm resident Steve Kaplan works on an arm rest for one of his custom porch swings Tuesday September 17, 2013. The neighborly barter went like this: Steve Kaplan of Little Elm had a canoe rigged ...

Over the past year or two, the big hotel chains, Marriott included, have been rethinking and revamping their properties’ restaurants. Guiding these redos are several somewhat overlapping ideas, most ...