Halftime Pizza has shuttered one of its two locations, the locally owned business revealed in a post in the San Antonio Restaurants Facebook group. Halftime’s location at 7531 Bandera Road permanently closed this Monday, according to the statement. The original Halftime Pizza, located at 7126 Tezel Road, remains operational. However, the post noted that the business’ remaining store is […]
The game company Cards Against Humanity has sued SpaceX for $15 million, arguing that billionaire Elon Musk’s private space-exploration company illegally trespassed on private property in South Texas and damaged the land. The petition, filed last week in Cameron County state district court, alleges that SpaceX used land Cards Against Humanity owns three miles from […]
After a 40-year hiatus, foundational Alamo City metal band S.A. Slayer will reunite next spring to perform at Germany’s Keep It True XXV festival and Hell’s Heroes VII in Houston. The reformed act — which was known simply as “Slayer” before a certain California thrash-metal group dropped its debut LP — will feature most of the […]
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. WASHINGTON — The South Texas man at the center of a new ad attacking U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez is a self proclaimed “conspiracy theorist” who has […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The rate of Texas women who died because of pregnancy or childbirth rose sharply in 2020 and 2021 to the highest since the state started tracking maternal deaths in 2013. Even excluding deaths […]
The San Antonio couple charged in the grisly dog attack that killed elderly Air Force veteran Ramon Najera Jr. last year received a combined 33 years in prison during the sentencing portion of their trial. State District Judge Velia Meza handed owner Christian Alexander Moreno an 18-year sentence, while his wife, Abilene Schnieder, got 15 years. […]
A longtime Broadway landmark and a piece of San Antonio culinary history is in a developer’s crosshairs. San Antonio-based real-estate company GrayStreet Partners wants to tear down the Pig Stand diner along with other Lower Broadway properties it now owns, the San Antonio Business Journal reports, citing city documents. GrayStreet filed with the city’s Office […]
Critics are accusing some City Council members of housing discrimination after shooting down a proposed low-income apartment complex in an affluent Northeast San Antonio neighborhood on Thursday. In a lengthy tweet, Democratic State Rep. Diego Bernal wrote that the difference between what council did during its Zoning and Land Use Session and redlining — the […]
Country music icon and San Antonio native George Strait will perform at a military gala being held in the Alamo City on Oct. 3, according to the event’s organizers. The show will mark the singer’s first time performing in the Lone Star State since his record-breaking concert at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field early this summer. […]
Two key supporters of the San Antonio Philharmonic during its rise from the ashes of the now-defunct San Antonio Symphony have sued the orchestra, demanding it repay what court documents characterized as $180,000 in loans. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Bexar County District Court by married couple and major Philharmonic donors David Wood and Colette […]