Democratic state Rep. James Talarico’s U.S. Senate campaign has wasted no time embracing the “Talafreako” moniker his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, attempted to brand him with. After Paxton trounced incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s GOP runoff, the AG ripped a page out of President Trump’s name-calling playbook and began referring to […]
Texas sports-bar chain Little Woodrow’s is diving belly-first into summer on Sunday, May 31, with its third-annual No Flips, All Flops Belly Flop Contest. The event will take place at the Braun Road Little Woodrow’s, 9840 W. Loop 1604 North. Check-in opens at 3 p.m., and the first flop is set to hit the water […]
Our Lady of the Lake University is running a new play in collegiate athletics. This fall, the school will become the first in San Antonio and the second in Texas to launch a women’s flag football program. The OLLU Saints’ women’s flag football team is set to take the field for the first time on February […]
Close to 54,000 acres of former Hill Country ranchland with a 30-acre spring-fed lake will soon become the second-largest park in Texas. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced Wednesday that it has acquired the property, which will become Silver Lake State Park. The former Silver Lake Ranch, where sheep and cattle grazed, features steep […]
A San Antonio man is in police custody over allegations he threatened to blow up a local conference where conservative activist Erika Kirk — the widow of Charlie Kirk — is expected to speak next month. Police charged Jacob Wenske, 26, with two felony charges of making a terroristic threat causing public fear, TV station KSAT […]
The album, available digitally this Friday, was four years in the making and the first for a new label the band hopes will expand its reach. The post San Antonio punk act Fea’s long-awaited new album The Nerve pulls no punches appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Members of City Council’s Public Safety Committee expressed dismay during Thursday meeting at Animal Control Services’ lackluster performance last year despite a $15 million boost to its budget. The budget increase, phased in over the past two years, also came in conjunction with a change in the department’s top leadership. Despite both, ACS director John […]
Comedian Paula Poundstone isn’t the least bit surprised at how quickly the news cycle changes — especially with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. She laughs when we tell her we rewatched her appearance as a panelist on an October 2025 episode of CNN’s Have I Got News for You and were struck by how much […]
Black San Antonio Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is tangling with woman online after she referred to him as a “monkey” in a post voicing frustration with his office. The councilman responded by tagging the woman, Trisha Thatcher-Garza, in a Wednesday evening Facebook post containing a screen shot of her comment. “Referring to me as a monkey […]
Jane Davis has yet to concede in Tuesday’s close runoff to decide the Democratic nominee for Bexar County District Attorney, saying through her political consultant that she wants to wait for a hand count of some precincts. Despite having four decades of prosecutorial experience in the DA’s office, Davis lost to former Fourth Court of […]