San Antonio’s Pearl will soon get a pair of pedestrian bridges enhancing the walkability of the near-downtown dining and shopping destination, according to the San Antonio Report. The first bridge will connect the Pearl’s Hotel Emma and Cellars apartment building to a parking lot across the street. The lot soon be the site of the […]
Federal lawmakers’ approval of a $1.2 trillion spending package over the weekend includes a lifeline for San Antonio’s cash-strapped Migrant Resource Center, according to the San Antonio Report. The package includes $650 million for the Shelter and Services Program (SSP), a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant that funds the Migrant Resource Center and other facilities […]
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Hickoids, the pioneering cowpunk band led by San Antonio’s Jeff Smith, is about to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first show. For those who remember the outfit’s early years, the notion that it would survive four decades might seem almost unthinkable.
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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. West Texas A&M University students Bear Bright and Marcus Stovall held their breath for months. Yes, university President Walter Wendler canceled last year’s on-campus drag show.
The San Antonio area is among the worst U.S. metros for those with Electric Vehicles, or EVs, according to a recent study from online automotive search engine iSeeCars. Indeed, the Alamo City ranked as the fifth-worst metro for EV infrastructure, having just one EV charger per every 3,775 residents.
As SeaWorld prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary this weekend at its San Antonio park, a group of animal rights activists is ready to provide counter-programming highlighting what it calls “60 years of misery” the amusement company created for aquatic mammals. A pod of PETA supporters plans to protest outside the gates of SeaWorld San Antonio […]
Star power claimed the top two spots on the Current’s most-read stories list this week. First, rap superstar Drake drew attention for handing out $35,000 cash at his San Antonio concert to people whom he thought could use it — namely, a pregnant woman and another woman who’d recently been dumped. Then, in the No. […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Medical Board proposed a broad definition for what constitutes an emergency medical exception under the state’s otherwise strict abortion ban at its meeting Friday, disappointing some abortion rights advocates who were […]