File under: “I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face.” The owner of Trump Burger, a MAGA-themed food chain based in the Houston area, is facing deportation proceedings. Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirm that Roland Mehrez Beainy, originally from Lebanon, was arrested May 16 on an immigration fraud charge, the Fayette County Record reports.
Pride started as a riot, and some queer revolutionaries don’t want San Antonio to forget it. That’s why a coalition of grassroots organizations is hosting a Reclaim Pride event Sunday, Aug. 31, from 1-8 p.m.
Five of San Antonio’s most beloved, but sadly shuttered, restaurants — Feast, Cookhouse, Sandbar, The Monterey, and Gwendolyn — are making a highly anticipated return this August, each for one night only. A dinner series dubbed Revival is a charitable effort to support people affected by the catastrophic Central Texas flooding.
Activists delivered a message of encouragement to Texas Democrats on Friday morning from a pedestrian overpass spanning I-10 in San Antonio. The group hung a banner reading “Stay Strong TX Dems” across the walkway near Vance Jackson Road ahead of morning rush hour. The message is directed at the Texas House Democrats who decamped to […]
A San Antonio teen arrested on allegations he planned to carry out a mass-casualty attack on the Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School campus must remain behind bars, a Bexar County Judge ruled Thursday, according to KSAT. While in custody, the 13-year-old boy also will continue to receive mental health treatment, the TV station reports, citing the […]
There’s a slightly ominous sense of mystery to the trio of solo exhibitions that recently opened at Contemporary at Blue Star. While a symbolic piece of firewood conjures the Log Lady of Twin Peaks fame in Jason Willome’s “When a Mind Wanders,” a dimly lit room with curious acoustics sets the stage for Nadia Botello’s […]
KSAT-12 news anchor Steve Spriester is leaving the news desk after more than three decades on the air in San Antonio, station officials said Thursday. The veteran anchor, who’s covered five NBA Championships along with presidential conventions and headline-grabbing tragedies including the Uvalde school shooting will do his last broadcast for the ABC affiliate on […]
Less than a month after revealing plans for a $30 million cinema and entertainment complex on U.S. Highway 281 North, San Antonio-based theater operator Santikos Entertainment divulged that a similar project is in the works in far West Bexar County, the Business Journal reports. The company’s latest multi-screen movie house development will be on 20 […]
As Republican rhetoric heats up over Texas House Democrats’ quorum-killing walkout, some high-profile state GOP figures have resorted to making racist remarks about state Rep. Gene Wu, who led the exodus. Among those engaging in the anti-Asian taunts are state Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Galveston Republican who also happens to be running for Texas attorney […]
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones told the Express-News Wednesday that she won’t take any immediate disciplinary action over District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez’s recent DWI charge. “There has been nothing that has been shared with me that would give us cause to act now,” Jones told the daily. “We just don’t have enough information.