As promised by local leaders, San Antonio’s newly proposed $160 million minor league ballpark may not cost taxpayers a dime. Just the same, it may cost some of the city’s most vulnerable residents their homes. The prospect of the 7,500-capacity ballpark for the Double-A San Antonio Missions displacing low-income housing came to light during a […]
Don’t stop believing, but do start planning for traffic delays Friday. San Antonio city officials are warning of potential traffic snarls as more than 35,000 people converge on the Alamodome to see the classic rock act play a package tour with Def Leppard and Steve Miller Band. The concert begins at 6 p.m., which means […]
A San Antonio police detective received a 30-day suspension over allegations that he secured help from another law enforcement agency using false pretenses and sent an online message to an ex-girlfriend urging her to kill herself, city records show. The San Antonio Police Department suspended Detective Arthur F. Lopez in June following an internal affairs investigation […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A Texas federal judge this month ruled that the Biden administration had acted unlawfully in interpreting Title IX to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ students. The ruling preempts any future action by the Education […]
San Antonio’s Ethics Review Board on Wednesday reprimanded Councilman Marc Whyte, saying he violated the city’s ethics code by urging law enforcement officials to dispatch additional personnel to investigate a potential child-abuse case. After deliberating for an hour in executive session, the board found that Whyte’s actions violated three sections of the code.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a San Antonio Democrat, is again seeking suggestions of songs and albums by Latinx artists that are worthy of being inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Since 2000, the Library of Congress has been on a mission to preserve recordings with cultural, historical or aesthetic significance to U.S. life. But […]
San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum will close the stable doors on its Summer Film Series this Sunday with a screening of the 2023 blockbuster Killers of the Flower Moon. Directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the non-fiction book by David Grann, the Oscar-nominated biopic unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma after members of the Osage […]
Austin Typewriter, Ink. (ATI) will present a “type-in” at the South Side’s Mission Branch Library on Saturday, Aug. 17, a stone’s throw from Mission San José. What’s a type-in, you may ask?
Journey is back on tour in a big way this year. Having headlined arenas this past spring, the band is spending much of the summer co-headlining a stadium tour with Def Leppard with the Steve Miller Band opening. The package tour heads to San Antonio’s Alamodome on Friday, Aug. 16.
Paramount+ series 1923 will film in San Antonio this fall, city officials confirmed Tuesday. Season two of the Golden Globe-nominated Yellowstone spinoff will shoot Sept. 19-27 in parts of downtown, according to the San Antonio Report. While both Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren star in the Taylor Sheridan-created series, only Mirren is expected to take part […]