The recently announced retirement of six longtime journalists from KSAT’s news team is likely the result of buyouts offered by the San Antonio TV station’s parent company, the Express-News reports. Graham Media Group, which owns the Alamo City ABC affiliate and six other TV stations, has extended buyouts to employees in other markets, including Houston’s KTRK, […]
Friday, May 31 Alejandro Escovedo San Antonio native Alejandro Escovedo has decades of creating compelling punk, cowpunk, rock and Americana on his own and as a member of the seminal groups Rank and File and True Believers have made him Texas music royalty.
It’s not a slugfest, really. No, we’re not talking a no-holds barred fight between Paloma the Pugilist and Gentleman Gin and Tonic where the best boozy drink takes home the Summer Sipper crown.
It’s only May, and there are currently near record-setting water temperatures in the Atlantic, which is bad news for those who live along or regularly visit the Texas Coast.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment that would require statewide […]
For those of a certain generation who like their music hard and heavy, the new wave of British Heavy Metal, or NWOBHM, represents a special era. The late ’70s and early ’80s surge in UK-based upstart metal acts leaned heavily into instrumental virtuosity, hooks, riffs and biker-influenced attire such as denim vests and leather. Chief […]
German actress Franka Potente said her “whole world opened up” when she traveled from her hometown of Dülmen, Germany, to Texas as a foreign exchange student circa 1990. She attended Humble High School northeast of Houston for her entire junior year. “I was a Humble Wildcat!” Potente, 49, told the Current during a recent interview.
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. MIDLAND — Mary Ann Estrella sat on a rented couch last November and ate, by candlelight, her Thanksgiving Dinner: a bologna sandwich.
With temperatures expected to hit or exceed 100 degrees this weekend, the City of San Antonio is taking steps to keep residents cool and safe. The city is opening 10 places for residents to stay cool, one in each City Council district. The sites will be open from noon to 8 p.m. over the long […]
San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum next month will become the latest host of the touring exhibition “Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four.” The exhibition comes from The National Museum of Wildlife art in Wyoming in collaboration with the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum.