Someone come get Grandpa, he’s losing his grip on reality again. For the second time in a month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has fallen for a fake image of the Iran war. After a downed airman was rescued in Iran over the weekend, Abbott was one of several Republican politicos who were seemingly fooled by […]
Business owners are applauding the new law because currently, anytime they want to operate in another city or county, they have to pay that jurisdiction’s permitting fee. The post Texas to launch a statewide food truck permit on July 1 appeared first on San Antonio Current.
The Republican and Democrat vying to represent Texas’ 23rd Congressional District in the U.S. House don’t agree on much — except that building a border wall through Big Bend National Park is a lame idea. During a weekend rally in Austin, MAGA gun-rights influencer Brandon Herrera and his opponent, progressive Democrat Katy Padilla Stout, both […]
Billy Gibbons celebrated his 76th birthday in December. And while most of his contemporaries who have hit the three-quarter century mark are kicking back and enjoying retirement, the ZZ Top founding member is racing through 2026 with plenty planned. The year opened with Gibbons flying solo with help from his own band, The BFG’s, whose […]
Editor’s note: This post contains an image that includes a racial effigy. Jennifer Lee and Kyev Tatum agree that Texas’ Black students do not receive the same academic support as their peers, that schools punish them unfairly and that recent state laws silence Black history and perspectives in the classroom. But the two Black Texans […]
A lawsuit alleges a 3-year-old migrant child was sexually assaulted while in federal custody at a foster care center in the Rio Grande Valley, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the toddler was taken into federal custody shortly after she and her mother illegally crossed the border near El Paso in September. The […]
An ill-fated run for Congress in Texas’ 31st District cost long-shot candidate Offer Vince Shlomi — better known as the “ShamWow Guy” — more than $300,000 of his own money. What’s worse, for all the cash he poured in, the former TV pitchman landed just 3,000 votes. Not only did Shlomi end his Republican primary […]
Years before his affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, a married staffer who later committed suicide by lighting herself on fire, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales inundated a campaign aide with text messages requesting nude photos and sex, the Express-News reports. The previously unreported texts are among hundreds the daily said it obtained showing the Republican congressman tried […]
The pioneering thrash-metal acts brought crushing riffs to SA’s Aztec Theatre on Sunday. The post Everything we saw as Testament, Overkill and Destruction thrashed the hell outta San Antonio appeared first on San Antonio Current.
We spoke to Thu about how she got started in San Antonio’s restaurant business and why it made sense to learn it from the ground up before jumping into ownership. The post Sumi Thu knows San Antonio’s Wild Goji Revolving Sushi & Bar inside and out appeared first on San Antonio Current.