San Antonio didn’t elect Gina Ortiz Jones to play nice. But it also didn’t elect her to run City Hall like, well, how it’s working right now. A month shy of her first year in office, the mayor has burned through seven staffers — an eyebrow-raising level of turnover. Her second chief of staff, Jenise Carroll, […]
LA-based Dave’s Hot Chicken continues to spread its wings in the San Antonio area, having filed with state regulators to open a fourth location. The chain, which specializes in fiery Nashville-style fried chicken, will spend $525,000 finishing out a structure at 9257 N Loop 1604 West in the northwestern bedroom community of Helotes, state filings […]
A University of Texas at Austin student is asking a federal district judge to strike a suspension from his academic record over his participation in the pro-Palestinian protests in April 2024 . U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman will rule this week on whether the state’s flagship university’s handling of the protest was a violation of […]
The Supreme Court has allowed telemedicine access to a widely used abortion bill to continue through at least Thursday so the justices have more time to weigh a national ban on accessing the pills through the mail, the Associated Press reports. Justice Samuel Alito on Monday signed a three-day extension of an earlier court order […]
Quintessential stadium-rock band Journey is extending its Final Frontier Tour with 40 additional North American dates this fall, including a stop at San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center on Saturday, Oct. 10. General tickets go on sale Friday, May 15 at 10 a.m. through the Frost Bank Center website. Presale tickets are available by signing up […]
If you’re too impatient to wait for Luminaria’s annual contemporary artist festival, we have good news. The San Antonio arts-promotion nonprofit will host a 24/7 pop-up exhibition at the Aiden San Antonio Riverwalk hotel this spring featuring work by eight local creators. Curated by Luminaria’s Fine Art Curator Andrea V. Rivas, “Creatives Bloom” will open […]
In a social media post last week, the Texas Democrat Party teased the addition of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as another keynote speaker at its June convention. “We have *yuge* news to share in the next few days,” the state party’s official Threads account posted, borrowing a Bernie-ism for the caption of an image featuring […]
The Hill Country is still recovering nearly a year after the Guadalupe River flooded last summer, taking dozens of lives, but people aren’t giving up hope. Hope for the Guadalupe, a documentary highlighting the restoration efforts following the July 4 flooding, is premiering in San Antonio this Friday, according to the team behind the film. […]
Roughly 76,000 fewer students enrolled in Texas public schools this academic year — the first non-pandemic decline in nearly four decades — with Hispanic students accounting for the overwhelming majority of the loss, according to a report released Monday. The policy research group Texas 2036 analyzed the state’s enrollment data and projected that about 100,000 […]
After Sunday night’s heartbreaking playoff loss, Spurs fans could use some good news. And here it is: Victor Wembanyama won’t face suspension — or even a fine — in the wake of his ejection during the team’s loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, according to ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania. “There will be no further discipline for Spurs […]