The two top execs at San Antonio’s Morgan Wonderland theme park received one of the amusement-park business’ most prestigious awards over the weekend. The annual Golden Ticket Awards presented its 2024 Leadership Award to Morgan’s Wonderland founder Gordon Hartman and President Richard Pretlow on Friday in recognition of their innovation in advancing accessibility and inclusion. The […]
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is taking heat for tweeting out a meme that spreads the debunked and racist claim that Haitian migrants are eating people’s pets. Yes, that’s the same debunked and racist claim that former President Donald Trump made during Tuesday night’s debate. An ABC News moderator fact-checked that statement on-air, pointing out that […]
A new sushi restaurant is in the works for Culebra Road on the Far West Side. The owners of forthcoming Takumi Sushi & Bar will spend approximately $1 million to construct a new building for the venture, according to details filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. It will be located at 10917 Culebra […]
The San Antonio Public Library and Texas Public Radio will host a closing reception Saturday, Sept. 14, for the multimedia exhibit “Bajo La Sal,” which has been on view since Aug. 3. The event will take place noon-4 p.m. at the Central Library, 600 Soledad St., and feature the work of painter Mauro de la […]
Who knew there was an official bun of the chicken sandwich? What’s more, who knew the company behind said bun wants to give one restaurant $20,000 for a chicken sandwich. That bun company, Artesano, launched a challenge asking restaurants nationwide to come up with their own original spin on the classic chicken sando by incorporating regional culinary […]
The family of Ramon Najera — the 81-year-old veteran killed in a 2023 dog attack that drew national headlines — has sued the city of San Antonio, saying it bears responsibility for the tragedy. The suit, filed Friday in San Antonio Federal Court, alleges city officials knew the pit bulls that mauled Najera and his […]
Musing on his place in music history, Cake founder and frontman John McCrea said he reluctantly, or perhaps unintentionally, emerged from the post-grunge rubble to move rock forward. By the mid-’90s, grunge had “sort of crumbled a bit, or just fell under its own weight,” McCrea explained.
Climate change is likely to worsen food insecurity among the nation’s most vulnerable residents, including those in San Antonio, said Admiral Rachel L. Levine, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department Health and Human Services. “The influence of climate change is one of the existential health risks of our time,” said Levine, who was in the city Monday […]
San Antonio developer Weston Urban is still leasing units at the Soap Factory Apartments despite plans to demolish the complex to make way for a new, $160 million minor-league baseball stadium, tenants say. Word of that Weston Urban is still bringing in new residents came Monday evening during a heated rally organized by the pissed-off […]
Creed will take the stage at Frost Bank Center on Friday, September 13, bringing local fans a blend of post-grunge power balladry and pseudo-Christian lyrics. The Alamo City is one of many stops on Creed’s Summer of ’99 reunion tour — a series of road dates the band booked after a 10-year hiatus fraught with […]