Summer is usually a busy season for San Antonio’s dining and nightlife scene, but the past few months have also brought plenty of painful goodbyes. Since the beginning of May, a long list of local bars and restaurants have turned out the lights, ranging from longtime institutions to relative newcomers. The casualties include venerable Alamo […]
The board of one the city’s tax zones on Friday approved allocating $170 million in future property tax revenue for projects ranging from the purchase of land at Hemisfair to build a new Spurs arena to the construction of a state-of-the-art animal hospital for the San Antonio Zoo. The board of the Midtown Tax Increment […]
We don’t say this lightly, but Frida Kahlo might take a shine to a 1925 bungalow recently listed for sale in Monte Vista. Listed for $825,000, the quirky and charming home seems perfectly suited for an artist who lives by their own rules. Kahlo — the genius behind “My Dress Hangs Here” and other iconic […]
A San Antonio home built in 1978 may not seem like a Me Generation time capsule at first glance, but the more you scroll, the wilder it gets. And as a perk for golfers, the $1.3 million listing couldn’t be closer to the course. Indeed, the three-bedroom, two-bath home directly abuts the links at the […]
Beto O’Rourke, founder of well-funded voter-registration group Powered by People, warned during a Thursday event in San Antonio that President Trump may use U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to intimidate voters during November’s midterms. The alarm from O’Rourke — a former Democratic presidential, gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidate — follows the state of Texas moving […]
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The 17th annual San Japan convention is taking over downtown San Antonio this weekend, drawing tens of thousands of anime and gaming fans. As per usual, plenty created and wore elaborate costumes so they could show up as their favorite characters. Here’s a look at some of the best cosplay we saw. Photos by Jaime […]
Seven years ago, Frank Strong stocked 20 copies of the book “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” in his classroom library. Then, one by one, the coming-of-age novel about a Mexican immigrant girl started disappearing from his shelves. Just two remain, and it makes him chuckle. It’s a sign, he said, that Erika Sánchez’s […]
Riding high on good polling, Democratic candidate for Texas’ 35th Congressional District Johnny Garcia didn’t mince words about what he thought of the GOP’s redrawing last summer of the district he’s running to represent. “They came in, they tried to redraw this district to favor Republicans, and they’re starting to see that their gerrymander turned […]
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk’s America PAC waded into Texas’ U.S. Senate race for the first time in recent days, dropping almost $250,000 to boost Attorney General Ken Paxton and attack his Democratic foe, state Rep. James Talarico. The spending, disclosed this week to the Federal Election Commission, was part of an $800,000 outlay for Republican […]