“Fun” may be the word of the week when it comes to live music in the Alamo City. Irreverent hip-hop group The Pharcyde is bringing their quirky approach to the genre to San Antonio, and kitschy singer-songwriter Ian McConnell is sharing his offbeat look at the world with a tour stop. As if that’s not enough, There I […]
Georgia-based chicken chain Chick-fil-A will open its first Universal City location, a unit it expects to have operating by summer of next year, state regulatory filings show. Construction on the $1.2 million restaurant is set to begin in February and run through July 17 of next year, Chick-fil-A officials said in documents shared with the […]
PopStroke, a chain Tiger Woods-linked golf and entertainment venues, will make its San Antonio debut this fall, according to the company’s website. The multi-million dollar facility will be located on a 3.3-acre lot off Presidio Parkway in the Landmark development near I-10 and Loop 1604, according to a report in the San Antonio Business journal.
Actress Nava Mau, who was born in Mexico City but grew up in San Antonio, has become the first trans Latina to be nominated for an Emmy, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Mau, 32, was nominated last week for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her work on the British […]
San Antonio ranks as the nation’s seventh-most dangerous city for pedestrians, according to a new report from vehicular-injury law firm Texas Law Dog. The firm’s study compared U.S. cities using their number of vehicle accidents involving pedestrians along with pedestrian deaths per 1,000 people. Researchers also considered each metro’s walkability and its amount of park […]
After a quick fundraising stop in San Antonio this morning, Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance paid a quick visit to the Alamo with his son, who didn’t look thrilled to be there. A photo of Vance and his son tweeted out by NBC affiliate News4 San Antonio shows Vance smiling big for the camera […]
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Goth dance club Cream Cocktail Lounge has walked away from a planned expansion into St. Paul Square. The venue’s owners announced the decision Sunday evening in an Instagram post, explaining that plans for a three-story club in the burgeoning east-of-downtown nightlife destination were off the table. “This could’ve been special but we got screwed,” the post […]
Two Texas women who were denied abortions to end life-threatening pregnancies have petitioned the federal government to require the state’s hospitals to provide emergency abortion care for patients at risk of dying if forced to carry a fetus to term. The Center for Reproductive Rights represented the women in separate filings made Monday with the U.S. […]
Sit has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair.