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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Attorney General Ken Paxton this week withdrew an eight-year-old legal opinion that gave private nonprofits the green light to ban guns on land they lease from a city — a move that comes […]
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. A nonprofit focused on increasing Latinos’ civic participation sued Attorney General Ken Paxton in federal court Friday so it could continue its voter registration efforts after […]
Weathered Souls Brewing Co., the San Antonio craft brewer known for its Black Is Beautiful social-justice campaign, is shutting down. In a Thursday Facebook post, Weathered Souls thanked the community for its support and trumpeted achievements that supporters helped it attain during eight years in operation.
After more than a decade in its Broadway brick-and-mortar location, San Antonio Italian mainstay Fratello’s Market & Deli shut its doors permanently in January. Now, the popular eatery has been reincarnated as a food truck — and its former head cook is running the show. Fratello’s To-Go suddenly appeared Sept. 7 on social media, announcing the […]
San Antonio’s Hotel Emma is again in the international spotlight, this time for receiving the city’s first-ever Two Key rating from Michelin’s hotel guide. The Michelin guide — the French tire company’s second-ever edition including U.S. hotels — came out on Wednesday. Only three Texas properties received the prestigious Two-Key rating.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy — a Republican whose district includes parts of San Antonio and Austin — this week announced that the United States isn’t worth defending anymore because a friend’s daughter has a transgender music teacher. Yep, you read that right. The firebrand congressman’s latest absurd claim came during a half-hour screed delivered Tuesday on […]
Turns out, the adage about everything being bigger in Texas also applies to charcuterie boards. San Antonio-based supermarket chain H-E-B opened its first Central Market store in September 1994 in Austin. As a part of its 30th anniversary celebration, the specialty grocery store took on mission of breaking the Guiness World Record for “the largest charcuterie […]
Italian casual-restaurant chain Olive Garden is opening its 10th San Antonio location, this one near North Star Mall. Olive Garden is developing the new eatery inside a former Golf Galaxy retail store in the San Pedro Crossing shopping center, new state regulatory filings show.
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. An effort by some Republican officials to curb access to early voting on college campuses in Tarrant County failed Thursday, after Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted […]