This season, rookie Victor Wembanyama met — if not blew past — the high expectations that swirled around him when he landed with the Spurs as the league’s No. 1 draft pick. Little surprise then that the 7-foot-4 Frenchman on Monday was nominated for two of the NBA’s most prestigious awards: Defensive Player of the Year […]
San Antonio-based DeLorean Motors Reimagined — the startup that made headline-grabbing promises to bring back the ’80s sports car featured in the Back to the Future film franchise as an electric vehicle — has shuttered its headquarters operation. The signage at DeLorean’s building at Port San Antonio had been taken down as of a Monday […]
A nightclub-inspired boutique gym is expected to open in Midtown this summer, offering fitness buffs amenities such as pre-workout coffee and (presumably) after-workout cocktails, news site MySA reports. Dubbed House of ALIO Fitness House X Social, the new facility will occupy a storefront at 1533 North Main Ave. An adjacent concept at the same address called […]
A multi-concept venture touted by the owners of San Antonio’s Pearl complex as largest culinary market in the Southwest will make its debut Tuesday. The 40,000-square-foot Pullman Market, announced in December, will include a specialty grocer selling Texas-based produce along with goods from more than 150 suppliers from throughout the state, Pearl officials said. A whole-animal butcher, a […]
Two inmates were found dead in their cells at Bexar County Jail over two days’ time, according to the Express-News. Duane Ventimiglia, 40, and Francisco Javier Salinas, 41, both died after suffering medical episodes, the daily reports, citing officials with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO). Authorities reported Ventimiglia’s death Thursday and Salinas’ the following […]
One of the most beloved queens to emerge from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bianca Del Rio is touring with a brazen brand of comedy that’s unafraid to offend. Bianca Del Rio had been doing drag for nearly 20 years — and almost gave it up — before she won the sixth season of Drag Race in […]
Delta-8’s Wild West days may be numbered. Federal lawmakers face growing pressure to close a loophole in the U.S. Farm Bill that allows commercial sale of THC-containing hemp products such as delta-8.
The U.S.-Mexico border is more than 1,950 miles of territory inhabited by roughly 19 million Americans and 11 million Mexicanos. It forms the potential backdrop for the longest ongoing imagined film noir in North American history.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In his first public comments since the University of Texas at Austin laid off around 50 employees that used to work in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, President Jay Hartzell tried to explain […]
The leader of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) this week claimed the events in director Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War are “highly plausible,” adding that Texans would have no choice but to take up arms if the federal government failed to recognize a legitimate ‘TEXIT’ vote. The comments made by TNM President Daniel Miller […]