Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones during a marathon City Council meeting Wednesday proposed pausing negotiations between the city and Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E) on a new $1 billion-plus downtown arena for NBA franchise. However, she faced pushback from both staff and the majority on the dais. Despite Jones’ concerns — which stem from questions surrounding […]
Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, has triumphantly announced that the FBI has agreed to help him locate the Texas House Democrats who fled the state to break quorum, the Texas Tribune reports. Cornyn claimed on a local radio show operatives from the federal agency’s San Antonio and Austin offices have been assigned to the mission, according […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into whether Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, is breaking laws by funding Texas Democrats’ out-of-state travel attempting to stop the […]
For the first four years of his life, all Hiroshi Shimizu knew was imprisonment. After Pearl Harbor, law enforcement arrested his mother and father because they happened to be of Japanese descent, and he was born a U.S. citizen in a concentration camp in Central Utah. The family bounced from camp to camp, including California’s […]
Alright, I admit it, I like to tell people that I enjoy the broader Asian film niche, but really, it’s for the hot girls. What can I say?
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An off-duty San Antonio police officer is under investigation for suspicion of drunk driving following a single-vehicle crash, KSAT reports, citing details from a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) incident report and a blood-draw warrant. Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report that a vehicle driven by David McCall, a […]
San Antonio actor Jonathan Joss, who died in a June 1 shooting outside his former South Side home, was honored with a tribute on the King of the Hill animated series, which was revived this week on streaming service Hulu. The show, which depicts down-home characters in the fictional Dallas-area suburb of Arlen, has returned after […]
The Book Cellar, located on the first floor of San Antonio’s enchilada-red Central Library, has served as a veritable cornucopia for local readers since 1998. Operated by the Friends of San Antonio Public Library, the retail space offers books ranging from Virginia Woolf novels to coffee-table tomes full of desert Southwest photographs — all 100% […]
The Goonies (1985) is celebrating its 40th anniversary. And what better way to bask in glorious nostalgia than to catch the cult film favorite for free this Saturday on the 18-by-32-foot LED video wall in the Will Naylor Smith River Walk Plaza, the Tobin Center’s outdoor venue. The H-E-B Cinema Series will transport viewers back […]