After less than two years in operation, Government Hill’s uber-eclectic Snake Hill Social Club is shutting down Monday, Aug. 5. The bar, popular with a Gen Z crowd, announced the impending closure in a Monday Instagram post, stating, “We know this is sudden but that’s only because we were trying to exhaust every option we […]
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. President Joe Biden on Monday called the U.S. Supreme Court “extreme” as he detailed his proposal for sweeping changes, including limiting justices to 18-year terms, during […]
San Antonio metal band Pariah will feature heavily in a new documentary about infamous Austin rock venue The Back Room, which will make its debut this weekend at the San Antonio Film Festival. Bloody & Bruised: The Untold Story of the Back Room, directed by J. Budro Partida, will screen this Saturday at 7 p.m. […]
In May, Brandon Herrera lost his Republican primary runoff to represent Texas’ 23rd Congressional District by fewer than 500 votes. Known to his fans as “the AK Guy,” Herrera is a gun manufacturer and San Antonio resident popular for his trove of YouTube videos showcasing high-caliber weaponry. In a series of reports for the Current […]
JetBlue is jetting out of San Antonio. After three years serving the Alamo City, the New York-based discount carrier will end nonstop flights from San Antonio International Airport to Boston and New York, the San Antonio Business Journal reports. The airline will end the flights in late October.
Musical giants are heading to San Antonio this week. Country hitmakers don’t come much bigger than Zach Bryan, who’s playing Tuesday and Wednesday at the Frost Bank Center.
Texas residents were affected by more than a third of all U.S. food recalls between 2020 and 2024, according to a new study from packaged goods compliance firm Trace One. Roughly 34.5% of all food recalls during the study’s five-year period affected Texas consumers, meaning the state had the nation’s fifth-highest recall rate during that time. […]
San Antonio has launched an online survey to gain public input as City Council weighs a potential ban on horse-drawn carriages, a controversial fixture of downtown tourism. The city’s Community Engagement Team developed the survey to gather public input ahead of the August meeting of the Transportation Advisory Board. Feedback from the survey will provide […]
Spurs legend Sean Elliott can thank his Apple Watch for beeping him down the road to recovery. Over the weekend, the 56-year-old sports commentator and NBA champ had a medical screening for atrial fibrillation after receiving alerts from his Apple Watch, Sports Illustrated reports. “Sean wasn’t experiencing any symptoms, but for the last couple of […]
A 78,000-pound piece of military hardware closed I-10 in Northwest San Antonio down to a single lane Sunday afternoon, WOAI-TV reports. A tank the station “tentatively identified” as a M109 Howitzer dropped off a flatbed tractor-trailer onto the well-traveled stretch of highway near the Wurzbach Road exit, snarling traffic around 4 p.m. Workers from Mission […]