The food court at San Antonio’s Shops at Rivercenter will be ripped out and replaced with a high-end Tex-Mex food hall masterminded by local restaurateur Jason Dady, mall officials revealed Monday. The 21,000-square-foot concept, dubbed Mexico Ceaty will feature four new restaurants and bars, a Mexican-style market and art activations, according to the Jason Dady Restaurant […]
The San Antonio Current landed recognition in three categories over the weekend at the 2024 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards. Staff writer Michael Karlis and reporting fellow Brandon Rodriguez won Second Place in Prison Beat Reporting for a series of stories chronicling the dangerous heat levels in Texas prisons, most of which have no air conditioning.
Only a handful of tickets remain for alt-country singer-songwriter Zach Bryan’s upcoming two-night run at Frost Bank Center. Frost Bank Center officials confirmed that Bryan’s Tuesday, July 30, show is already sold out and only a few single tickets remain for Wednesday, July 31. Jonathan Samaniego, a representative for the Frost Bank Center box office, […]
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The operator of San Antonio-area YouTube channel Demolition Ranch expressed shock on social media this weekend after reports that the would-be Trump assassin wore a T-shirt branded with the channel’s logo. On Saturday, 20-year-old Thomas Mathew Crooks shot at former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in an apparent assassination attempt. The Secret Service […]
Yet another pop-culture convention has popped up in San Antonio, this one dedicated to TV and movie scares. The first Cursed City Con, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 7, will include appearances by Greg Nicotero, make-up effects supervisor, co-executive producer and sometimes director for The Walking Dead. Randy Havens and Regina Ting Chen from Stranger Things, Hannah Fierman […]
A new scripted podcast series is using the voice of Hollywood actor Owen Wilson to resurrect San Antonio adventurer, businessman and inventor Tom Slick, whom the project’s creators tout as “the most interesting man you’ve never heard of.” Dallas-born Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Midnight in Paris) will star alongside Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk in Tom […]
Stephen Graham Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of 30-plus novels, short stories and comic books, will discuss his latest work of fiction, I Was A Teenage Slasher, on Thursday, July 18, at Nowhere Bookshop. Set in a small, tight-knit West Texas community reminiscent of Jones’s hometown, I Was a Teenage Slasher is a […]
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Hop to, Nancy Drew. The Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa is partnering with San Antonio-based entertainment company Baker Street Mystery to host a summer of murder mystery events every Saturday through August 31. Guests will arrive and be assigned a character to fit the night’s theme, which will include “Christmas in July,” “Murder […]