Dog-friendly beer garden Hops & Hounds is celebrating International Dog Day this Monday with an adoption drive and a series of dog pageants. The locally owned bar-meets-dog park, located at 123 Ave. B, will operate the adoption drive in partnership with the Spay Neuter Inject Project of San Antonio (SNIPSA), a nonprofit that rehabilitates canines and […]
This Saturday, San Antonio Shrek fans can slather on green body paint and dance the night away at a Shrek Rave. The “wild night of ogre-sized fun” will be held at the Rock Box at 1123 E. Houston Street, according to a Facebook event. Attendees are encouraged to come in costume, whether as Lord Farquaad, […]
Texas A&M-San Antonio fall 2024 student enrollment is the highest in the young institution’s history, officials with the 15-year-old campus said Monday. Indeed, more than 8,000 students are currently enrolled at TAMUSA, including 1,250 first-year students. That’s a 5% jump in total enrollment from last year.
San Antonio-based Merit Coffee has temporarily closed its Sonterra location for renovations, its owners revealed in an Instagram post. The cafe at 700 E. Sonterra Blvd. is the flagship location for the locally sourced java brand. The chain has four other San Antonio locations where devotees will be able get its famous Cereal Milk Cold […]
The Marriott Rivercenter and Marriott Riverwalk hotels will host several Japanese-inspired pop-ups in celebration of San Antonio’s annual San Japan anime and gaming convention over Labor Day Weekend. Starting on Friday, the Marriott Rivercenter, located at 101 Bowie St., will feature the Cafe Bocadillo Ramen Pop-up to help keep conference attendees fed and fueled for […]
Former UTSA Roadrunners quarterback Frank Harris is throwing his helmet into local politics. Harris told the Current Monday that’s he’s endorsing tech entrepreneur Beto Altamirano to replace termed-out Mayor Ron Nirenberg as San Antonio’s top elected official. Harris met Altamirano for coffee and was inspired by the candidate’s vision for the future of San Antonio.
Bexar County has the nation’s tenth-largest number of female same-sex households, according to a new data analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau. Bexar County has 5,436 female same-sex households, both married and unmarried, out of its total of 726,886 households, 2020 Census numbers show. That puts it among major population centers such as Los Angeles, which had […]
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) wants a federal investigation into raids Texas Attorney General conducted last week in San Antonio and South Texas as part of what his office called an ongoing probe into “election integrity.” During a Monday press conference, LULAC officials said the raids are a bid by the Republican […]
The city of Boerne will celebrate its Little League All-Stars team Monday evening as the players return from the title game of the World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Starting at 4:45 p.m, crowds are invited to line the community’s Main Street between Main Plaza and Thiessen Street give the team a hero’s welcome, according to organizers. The street will be blocked […]
Originally published by Deceleration, a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. Editor’s Note: On Thursday, August 22, 2024, a 46-year-old woman died on a sidewalk in the Five Points area of San Antonio in the midst of a brutal heat wave—an apparent victim of […]