San Antonio music fans have much to celebrate this week, from the return of an Alamo City native who’s been making waves in Nashville to an eight-year anniversary celebration for Jazz, TX, the Pearl’s swinging basement venue. Let’s dive right in. Friday, Aug. 23
San Antonio Spurs commentator Bill Land will retire ahead of the 2024-2025 season after more than 15 years on the mic, officials with the NBA team said Wednesday. The announcement comes after he was diagnosed in May 2023 with multiple myeloma, a rare form of blood cancer. This June, Land received a stem-cell transplant which […]
Houston-based Crust Pizza Co. is expanding its chain of gourmet pizzerias into San Antonio with plans to open a half-dozen locations by the end of next year. Crust recently opened its first area location at 2955 Town Center Drive in New Braunfels, and a Stone Oak location is scheduled to launch by the end of this year, CEO […]
Transgender Texans will no longer be able to change the gender listed on their driver’s licenses, according to an email a top Department of Public Safety official sent to employees on Tuesday. Under the new policy, drivers-license holders are barred from changing the sex on their current IDs unless they request the alteration due to […]
San Antonio is about to get a little sexier. Paper Tiger is hosting a night of darkwave and goth-pop in its side room this Thursday with performances by headliner SDH and opening act Clubdrugs. Self-described as “cruelly sexy electronic music,” SDH — that stands for Semiotics Department of Heteronyms — hails from Barcelona and is signed […]
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San Antonio Museum of Art is hosting two horror-themed Japanese-themed events next week as a chilling way to beat the heat. On Tuesday, Aug. 27, SAMA will screen the 1998 Japanese horror classic Ringu, a film by Hideo Nakata that was remade in 2002 as the U.S. blockbuster The Ring.
Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. At least $83 million. That’s how much Donald Trump’s political action committee, Save America, has spent, according to FEC records, on attorneys and attendant expenses to defend the former president from lawsuits and criminal charges.
Soon there will be even more reason to take a day trip to visit the Spoetzl Brewery, home of Texas’ beloved Shiner Bock beer. The 115-year-old brewery in the town of Shiner is adding a cocktail lounge and restaurant to the rapidly expanding list of offerings on its campus, officials said Tuesday. The 8,500-square-foot drinking […]
San Antonio-based fast food phenom Burger Boy isn’t done expanding. Days after announcing the opening of a much-anticipated drive-thru near the University of Texas at San Antonio campus, the company filed with the state of Texas to construct a new location in the northeastern suburb of Windcrest. Work on the $1.1 million stand-alone restaurant at 7560 […]