The String Cheese Incident may have a bluegrass foundation, but the decades-running jamband pulls from a wide variety of genres, including classic rock, jazz fusion, world and even electronic dance music. The Colorado-based group will bring that freewheeling variety show to San Antonio’s Stable Hall on Thursday, May 28. “There’ll be a lot of dancing,” […]
Guests including actress Cristela Alonzo, Rep. Joaquin Castro and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairwoman Rochelle Garza will discuss the future of civil rights in the country. The post Mexican American Civil Rights Institute holding annual symposium this weekend in San Antonio appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Advocates and family members are demanding answers after a woman with a known medical condition died in a Bexar County Jail on Sunday, May 18. CaSandra Pearson, 29, was incarcerated at Bexar County Adult Detention Center for two months after spending time in a nearby hospital for severe sickle cell disease. She was arrested March […]
The Democratic runoff for Texas’ recently redrawn 35th Congressional District just got uglier. And, some might argue, a whole lot funnier. Over the weekend, campaign signs popped in San Antonio stating in bold red letters that “Yolanda Saldívar Would Vote for Maureen Galindo.” Spotted at polling locations around San Antonio, the signs are paid for […]
Texans are returning to the polls Tuesday to pick their party’s nominees in an array of runoffs, capping one of the liveliest primary seasons in the state’s recent political history. Several statewide, congressional and legislative contests required an overtime round between the top two finishers in various races after no candidate received a majority of […]
As the $100 million slugfest between incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his primary runoff opponent Ken Paxton comes to a close Tuesday, some observers predict the fight has done deep damage to an already divided Republican Party. With President Donald Trump’s last-minute endorsement, Paxton goes into the runoff the favored candidate, never mind the litany of scandals […]
The prime corner of St. Paul Square that once housed the shuttered Francis Bogside has stood empty for months. Now, the spot at 1170 E. Commerce Street has found a worthy successor in Miles, a new cocktail bar and restaurant with a jazz legend for a namesake and a menu built around elevated takes on […]
San Antonio’s Historic Pearl complex hosted its first-ever music festival on Saturday with Texas blues rockers Los Lonely Boys headlining. Pearl Fest, which included both ticketed and free performances, also included San Antonio acts such as Nicky Diamonds, Girl in a Coma, mypilotis and Chicano soul legend Sunny Ozuna. Here’s a look at the artists […]
Donald Trump doesn’t run the Republican Party so much as terrorize it. During the reality-show president’s time in office, the GOP resembles one of those families neighbors whisper about behind drawn curtains. You know, the kind where an unstable, sheetrock-punching patriarch rules the house and other family members regularly try to hide black eyes and […]
Called a must-see exhibition by the New York Times, the San Antonio Museum of Art’s “Microhistories of the Andes” examines artifacts that elucidate the plurality of Andean creation myths, cosmologies, cultural impacts on agricultural practices and objects of devotion. The show, curated by Kristopher Driggers, SAMA’s curator of Latin American Art, opens this Sunday and […]