This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X and Bluesky. After spending four decades in exile south of the Rio Grande, the New World screwworm has finally wriggled its way back into Texas. The return of the parasitic worm has […]
Rackspace, the corporation frequently held up as one of San Antonio’s tech-industry shining stars, is slashing 15% of its workforce, or about 750 jobs of its international workforce. In a Tuesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it will hand out pink slips over the next six months as it […]
San Antonio-area livestock sanctuary Winding Branch Ranch is taking precautions to guard against New World screwworm as cases of the parasite have cropped up in nearby counties. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are pausing the intake of new animals for the next 14 days and will reassess at that time,” officials with the […]
During the Republican Party of Texas’ annual convention last weekend, delegates voted to oust Abraham George, the first Indian American to chair the state party, and replace him with someone even further to the right. The Texas GOP abandoned George in favor of D’rinda Randall, his former vice chair, along with her running mate, David […]
Animal welfare group PETA shared an open letter to Spurs Managing Partner Peter J. Holt on Tuesday, asking him to change the team name to something more animal friendly. The group’s proposed alternative? The San Antonio Spores. “Ditching a name that celebrates a device designed to deliver pain in favor of fandom for fungi would […]
Public finance experts and a member of San Antonio City Council are questioning whether City Manager Erik Walsh is being transparent about what scrapped plans for a major downtown hotel may mean for how the city pays for its portion of the Spurs’ new $1.3 billion arena. Those concerns stem from this month’s cancellation of […]
San Antonio Independent School District’s Board of Trustees on Monday unanimously approved Toni Thompson to take over as the district’s interim superintendent. Previously serving as SAISD’s chief of staff, Thompson will replace outgoing Superintendent Jaimie Aquino, who announced his retirement earlier this year. “We are truly excited to have Tony serve in this capacity,” SAISD […]
Freedom! The Soundtrack of 250 Years will also bring together the San Antonio Gospel Heritage Choir and Grammy-nominated Sounds of Blackness. The post Live Music in San Antonio This WeeK: Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson, Killswitch Engage appeared first on San Antonio Current.
San Antonio-rooted visual artist Jalen Colton Sanchez’s solo exhibition at Thrd Space Studio, “Perspectives of Otherness,” opens like a portal. Vibrant sculptures stand as if excavated from a civilization built on Indigenous folk cosmologies. Around them, collages with radial patterns and chromatic bursts evoke a mestizo psychedelia that collapses myth and imagination into a single […]
Canadian metal act Kittie thrashed it up Monday at the Aztec Theatre as part of a tour that follows a roughly ten-year hiatus. The all-woman band — which still includes sisters Morgan and Mercedes Lander from its early-2000s lineup — rocked hard, dipping into both the gothic nu-metal sound that marked its early work along with newer […]