Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the federal government over its requirement that states provide LGBTQ+ affirming placement for foster care youth.
For more than five decades, Sam Kindrick carved a niche as San Antonio’s resident gonzo journalist, documenting the area’s outcasts, dreamers, oddballs, pimps, prostitutes, druggies — and its musicians. As a close friend to legendary performers such as Augie Meyers, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Leon Russell, David Alan Coe and countless others, Kindrick documented […]
The Manhattan Short Film Festival is a novel “microfestival” that occurs at 500 venues around the globe simultaneously and screens shorts from 10 selected filmmakers. This year’s San Antonio iteration will run the weekends of Sept. 27-28 and Oct. 4-5 at art collective Urban-15’s headquarters just south of the Freetail Brewery.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued the owner of Ingram Park Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram, alleging the dealership allowed two female employees to be subjected to discrimination and harassment. The petition, filed Wednesday in federal court in San Antonio, also maintains that Ingram Park Chrysler owner Benson Enterprises Inc. allowed managers to […]
Although City Council voted 9-2 this month to move forward on a tentative plan to build a $160 million minor league baseball stadium – a plan that would also displace some of the city’s most vulnerable residents – one entity could still derail the entire project: San Antonio Independent School District. Indeed, the 4,500-seat stadium […]
The most wonderful time of the year comes with chance for San Antonio kids to shine on stage. Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet is coming to the Alamo City on Saturday, Oct. 5, to host open auditions for local children to participate in its production at the Majestic Theatre.
Girl in a Coma will headline San Antonio’s annual Muertos Fest on Saturday, Oct. 26, the recently reunited alt-rock band said Wednesday in a Facebook post. A month ago, the Current reported the group had come out of a years-long coma but wasn’t yet ready to share details about upcoming shows. Now, the trio has begun […]
An anti-LGBTQ school-voucher advocate with ties to Texas politics is on “paternity leave” after the resurfacing of decade-old gay porn videos, including one where he participates in a masturbation contest with other men, according to media reports. Self-described “school choice evangelist” Corey DeAngelis is on leave from his job at the American Federation for Children […]
Emmy Award-winning comedian David Cross is a certifiably funny guy. Some might know him for his standup specials, others as the never-nude Tobias Fünke on the hilarious series Arrested Development. Still others might recognize him from the daring and daffy ’90s sketch comedy show he co-wrote and co-starred in with Better Call Saul star Bob […]
Yet another San Antonio-area H-E-B is poised to get a True Texas BBQ, state regulatory filings show. The Alamo City-based grocer will add another location of its popular in-store barbecue chain to the existing H-E-B plus!