Looks like San Antonio’s effort to land a nonstop flight to Washington D.C. may be trickier than local leaders let on. JetBlue Airways and United Airlines are trying to ground an effort by American Airlines to create a nonstop flight between San Antonio International Airport and the nation’s capital, the Express-News reports. San Antonio leaders […]
San Antonio’s Luminaria is hosting a gallery exhibit featuring work the annual contemporary and experimental arts festival has commissioned from artists throughout the years. The event’s organizers also are hosting a youth poetry slam this Saturday. The Xicanx Art Exhibition will run for the month of August, showcasing works by Chicanx artists including Cruz Ortiz, Ruth […]
Another judge has blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempts to stop municipalities from adopting cannabis decriminalization ordinances. Hays County District Judge Sherri Tibbe this week dismissed a suit Paxton filed to end San Marcos’ decriminalization policy, according to a statement from progressive organizing group Ground Game Texas. Ground Game had worked with criminal-justice reform […]
A group comprised of members from both San Antonio and Austin will bring its mind-bending cumbias tinged with Afrobeat to Austin’s Levitation Festival this fall. Self-described as “Féla Kuti meets psychedelic cumbia,” the band will share the Friday, Nov. 1, lineup with headliner Los Espiritus. The just-announced event is one of many throughout the four-day, […]
All seven Delia’s Tamales restaurants reopened Thursday following an investigation that dispatched FBI agents to several of the McAllen-based chain’s locations. Personnel at Delia’s San Antonio store and its six others sprinkled across the Rio Grande Valley told the Current the outlets are back in operation and running with their regular business hours. In operation […]
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has ordered a six-month shutdown for a San Antonio massage business suspected human trafficking, officials with the state agency said Thursday. During an inspection last month of San Massage Spa in Castle Hills, TDLR inspectors found “numerous indicators” that human trafficking could be happening at the site, authorities […]
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick this week doubled down on a baseless conspiracy theory that former President Barrack Obama is secretly running the White House and aims to put his wife at the top of the Democratic ticket. The Republican lieutenant governor’s latest wacky comments came Tuesday during an appearance on The Mark Davis Show, a conservative talk […]
Stable Hall — the Pearl’s recently launched state-of-the-art music venue — is looking for fans to join its street team in exchange for concert tickets and a cash stipend. On a monthly basis, Stable Hall will deploy what it calls “Street Team Ambassadors” across the city to promote the venue’s upcoming concert lineup, according to […]
The San Antonio Public Library’s free Friday Retro Movies for Adults series is presenting Alien for its next installment — a movie that stands alongside classics like The Silence of the Lambs and Chinatown as eternally perfect works of Hollywood filmmaking. Just like your favorite album, you can return to Alien again and again and be dazzled.
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