The Lone Star is shining bright in this week’s live music options. From El Paso post-hardcore innovator Jim Ward to Kerrville-based one-man-band Possessed by Paul James to Vincent Neal Emerson, a real-deal country singer from here in San Antonio, Texas is well represented in our recommended shows. Let’s take a gander, shall we?
Breathe in, breathe out. You’re about to be in the same city as ’90s heartthrob Gavin Rossdale. A mainstay of the flannel decade’s grunge wave, Rossdale’s band Bush is playing San Antonio’s Freeman Coliseum on Wednesday night.
A Loop 410 entrance ramp on San Antonio’s East Side will remain closed until next summer, according to Texas Department of Transportation officials. The affected portion of the busy highway is the southbound entrance ramp from East Houston Street. TxDOT officials publicly revealed the plan Friday, and the closure was already in effect as of […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday made good on his promise to sue Bexar County Commissioners Court for green lighting a program to mail voter-registration applications to residents. On Monday, Paxton issued a letter to the Commissioners Court threatening legal action if the county approved a contract to hire an outside firm to distribute […]
The UTSA Roadrunners beat the Kennesaw State University Owls 16-28 on Saturday in the San Antonio team’s first game as an American Athletic Conference member. However, that victory — played out in front of home-turf fans at the Alamodome — came at a cost. The Roadrunners coughed up $500,000 for the privilege of defeating the […]
Texas is no longer allowing transgender people to update the sex marker listed on their birth certificates, Austin radio station KUT reports. Under a policy change quietly put in place Friday, Texans who obtained court orders to change the sex listed on the birth certificates can no longer do so, a Texas Department of State Health […]
After the recent closure of DIY venues such as Snake Hill, San Antonio’s tight-knit hardcore-punk community was scattered without a place to call home. However, out of those ashes, a new haunt is emerging. Only a month after Snake Hill’s closure, club regular and photographer Clementine Marie is opening up a DIY speakeasy called Whatever […]
San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture is presenting Dining with Rolando Briseño: A 50-Year Retrospective in honor of the extraordinary life and career of Alamo City-born artist, activist, “cultural adjustor” and culinary historian Rolando Briseño. The exhibition opens this Thursday at Centro de Artes Gallery, 101 S. Santa Rosa Ave., and includes a free reception […]
Bexar County Commissioners Court on Monday approved a plan to mail voter-registration applications to residents even though Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened to sue if the county does so. The court’s 3-1 vote — made with a single abstention — cleared the way to create a no-bid contract for tech firm Civic Government Solutions […]
Coastal Italian restaurant Allora, located across Avenue B from the Pearl, has permanently closed, an official from its operating group confirmed Tuesday. Brannon Swindle, director of hospitality for San Antonio’s Maverick Restaurant Group, told the Current that the high-end dining spot was shuttered over the weekend. Swindle said fine-dining restaurants face a “tough market” right now.