Brian José Morales García had only been installing air conditioners in the Texas heat for a few months when the construction crew he was with got pulled over near Fredericksburg by a Texas Department of Public Safety officer. The routine traffic stop resulted in the 25-year-old’s removal from the country despite his status as a […]
San Antonio-based Santikos Entertainment is expanding again, this time snapping up 22 acres on the city’s fast-growing far West Side, the San Antonio Business Journal reports. Officials with the cinema chain told the Business Journal they plan to develop a major mixed-use development at State Highway 211 and Potranco Road anchored by multiple movie screens, […]
The South Texas city of Brownsville has approved the disannexation of 444 acres of land in a rushed deal with billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX that displayed the “lopsided power dynamics” between the municipality and the galactic Goliath, news site myRGV reports. The purpose of the land grab is still officially a mystery. SpaceX declined to […]
Former gubernatorial, presidential and U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke and his Powered by People political action committee will visit a UTSA-area hangout this Thursday to register students to vote. And he’s offering free beer to sweeten the deal. The stop is part of the former Democratic congressman’s ongoing “Every Campus Counts” college tour, which he […]
Stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias is always down for a recommendation on where to eat in San Antonio, his “home away from home.” “Leche de Tigre, I won’t forget that name,” the Long Beach, California-based comic told the Current during a Zoom interview roughly a week after he wrapped up work on his landmark 10th […]
When San Antonio comedian and TV personality Cleto Rodriguez cries in his new film Anxious Mark, those tears are the real deal. “That’s not acting,” Rodriguez, 55, told the Current during a recent interview. “I was really in pain.” Over the past few years, Rodriguez’s health has been marked by a series of serious setbacks, […]
Tickets went on sale Tuesday for the 65th Annual Wurstfest, New Braunfels’ 10-day “Salute To Sausage.” Held every fall in Landa Park along the banks of the Comal River, Wurstfest serves up more than a week of German-inspired food, drink and entertainment to celebrate the country’s deep roots in the Texas Hill Country. The festivities […]
If music was the magical elixir that got Zakk Wylde off the gridiron and onto a stage when he was a teenage linebacker, the guitar was the vehicle that got him to the dream gig as an Ozzy Osbourne sideman when Wylde was barely 20. The next three-and-a-half decades have seen the Jersey native not […]
Collage, bricolage, assemblage — media that skew perspective, create surreal objects and environments, and generally mess with your head — feel like the visual equivalent of automatic writing made manifest. In actuality, however, they’re highly refined and deliberate constructs intended to corrupt one’s visual acuity by disrupting the field of vision and traditional paths of […]
San Antonio’s annual celebration of anime, gaming and Japanese pop culture is returning for another sprawling Labor Day weekend takeover. The San Japan convention will pack parts of the Henry B. González Convention Center plus neighboring venues with cosplay, gaming tournaments, panels, an idol festival, J-fashion events, late-night electronic dance parties, 24-hour tabletop gaming and […]