Originally published by Deceleration, a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. Editor’s Note: On Thursday, August 22, 2024, a 46-year-old woman died on a sidewalk in the Five Points area of San Antonio in the midst of a brutal heat wave—an apparent victim of […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw announced Friday he will retire at the end of the year, marking an end to a 15-year tenure defined in recent years by his agency’s […]
Looking to exchange views about your favorite sci-fi and fantasy works with fellow fans of the genres? The Parman Library holds a monthly book club devoted to those realms of speculative fiction, allowing local fans a chance to do just that.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas authorities who seized the cellphone of a Democratic candidate for the Texas House and searched the home of a legislative aide this week were investigating allegations that a longtime Frio County political […]
While San Antonio may not be the first place that comes to mind when you hear the words “higher-ed hub,” the city plays host to more than 100,000 students spread across more than 30 institutions of higher learning at any given time. Whether you’re a newcomer to college life or a returning student, campus life […]
Best known for her role in the Mission: Impossible film franchise along with movies and series including Gone Baby Gone, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the first season of HBO’s True Detective, actress Michelle Monaghan has been entertaining audiences for nearly 25 years. In Bad Monkey, the new black comedy-drama series streaming on Apple TV+, Monaghan stars […]
Hawthorne Heights helped shape a new musical era for angsty teenagers when the Dayton, Ohio-based band broke out in the early 2000s. The group dropped its 2004 debut The Silence in Black and White to negative reviews from critics, but the album blend of hook-filled pop-emo and grinding metalcore ultimately won over a generation of […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A Houston judge on Friday denied Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to shut down an immigrants’ rights organization that his office accused of violating nonprofit rules by making political statements criticizing prominent Republicans […]
San Antonio has reached a tentative agreement on a $109.6 million, three-year labor contract with its fire union that would extended wage increases to emergency personnel while yielding concessions for the city. Under terms of the agreement, firefighters and paramedics would get a 20% wage increase over three years.
Conceived by co-founders and artistic directors Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, the C& Center of Unfinished Business is a reading room offering a selection of books linked to the topic of colonialism in various ways. The project has been traveling since 2017 as a generative archive that continually picks up new information, content and context […]