When Scott Aukerman launched the live radio show and podcast in 2009 that later became Comedy Bang! Bang!, he was still searching for his place in the industry. Aukerman had already been a performer in the 1990s alternative comedy scene and as a writer and actor for Mr. Show, but he spent much of the […]
Things don’t seem to be going so well for the “Trump-a-palooza” mid-term Republican convention scheduled to take place in Dallas this week. For starters, Republicans appear to be having a hard time filling up the room for the unprecedented two-day gathering. So much so that they’re now giving away tickets to what was once billed […]
Over the past 16 years, I have picked the brain of comedian Carlos Mencia quite a few times. Whether I was interviewing him about a new stand-up special, a movie role or one of his many tour stops in San Antonio, the veteran comic has always spoken openly about whatever he was going through at […]
San Antonio coffee truck Café La Lele is taking over Folklores Coffee’s recently shuttered Beacon Hill location to set up its first brick-and-mortar shop. Café La Lele’s owners shared their plans in a Monday Instagram post showing a photo of their new digs at shopfront at 106 Michigan Ave. “Some of you may recognize this […]
Well, that didn’t last long. Retired San Antonio police chief Bill McManus has left an executive position with Silver Ventures, which owns and operates the Pearl entertainment district, after less than a week on the job. In a Friday statement, McManus and company officials revealed they had mutually agreed to part ways. McManus, who retired […]
The cities of Austin and San Antonio stand to lose hundreds of millions in revenue each year if a proposal by Gov. Greg Abbott to disband their energy utilities is enacted by the Legislature. That’s the point, say supporters of the proposal, who argue that money should be going to lower customers’ electricity bills rather […]
Three members of San Antonio City Council are calling for a meeting with CPS Energy officials and the City Manager’s office to discuss power outages from a late August rainstorm that left thousands of residents without electricity for days. In an emailed statement, council members Sukh Kaur (District 1), Edward Mungia (District 4) and Teri […]
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. On May 26, former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French eked out a 1-point victory over incumbent Jim Wright in the Republican runoff for a seat on the state’s poorly […]
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. Inside a cluster of windowless tents, detainees describe losing their sense of time as they spend weeks and even months beneath the flicker of industrial lightbulbs. Camp East Montana — […]
As Texas hospitals learned this week that the Trump administration was currently holding up their $10 billion in Medicaid payments, the state’s attorney general and U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Paxton was noticeably silent. Three years ago, Paxton’s office was quick to come to the state’s defense when the Biden administration threatened to withhold the same […]