Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones on Wednesday unveiled plans for three listening sessions on her request to schedule a citywide election to decide the fate of the Alamo City’s $489 million contribution toward a new Spurs arena. “Last November, county voters voted on their $311 million contribution to the Spurs arena,” Jones tweeted about her proposal. […]
South Texas singer-songwriter and Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido will host a hybrid concert-campaign event later this month in the Hill Country town of Bee Cave, joined by luminaries from the two realms he straddles: music and politics. Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico will make guest appearances during […]
The McNay Art Museum’s LOVEfest event this Saturday is a cinematic tribute to pop art icon Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Built as a 12-foot Cor-Ten steel structure, the iconic image was also released as a MoMA Christmas card and a U.S. Postal Service stamp. Indiana’s sculpture has been a cornerstone of the McNay’s collection since […]
This week’s live music calendar spans nearly every corner of the musical map, from funk pioneer George Porter Jr. to outlaw troubadour Steve Earle. Also don’t overlook Texas country-soul artist Angel White and a stacked local bill of adventurous metal acts. Let’s jump in and explore the full array of options. Wednesday, Aug. 5 George […]
In a Tuesday letter, more than 140 Texas businesses urged Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz to protect public access to the Rio Grande and oppose federal plans to build steel border barriers at nearly every river access point in Big Bend National Park. The businesses — mostly river outfitters, recreation […]
WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding Texas’ 23rd Congressional District to its target list, the third red-leaning, Hispanic-majority U.S. House seat to make it onto national Democrats’ radar ahead of November. In adding the seat to its “Districts in Play” list, the House Democratic campaign arm is signaling party leaders’ growing belief […]
Three of San Antonio-based La Panadería Bakery Café’s locations violated child labor protections along with minimum wage and overtime pay requirements, resulting in $45,000 in fines and back wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. In a statement released Tuesday, Labor Department officials said the agency’s Wage and Hour Division investigated Tequila Almond Croissant […]
Centro San Antonio CEO Trish DeBerry during a Monday talk radio appearance called Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones “toxic” and compared her demands that San Antonio companies step up their fundraising to the “Gestapo.” DeBerry’s jabs during a WOAI-AM radio interview related to Jones’ call to hold a citywide vote on public funding for the Spurs’s […]
“Había Una Vez,” an exhibition by San Antonio siblings Manola and Maria Ramirez, will open this Friday at Centro Cultural Aztlan. The show is billed as an interactive, immersive visual art experience dedicated to exploring the bicultural experiences of immigrant families. An invitation for the viewer to walk into the story of their lives, art […]
A San Antonio teen whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested on her way to church has been released from Dilley’s South Texas Immigrant Processing Center, as has her father, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said Tuesday. Last week, Castro — a San Antonio Democrat — posted that federal agents detained 16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo […]