San Antonio-founded restaurant chain Church’s Texas Chicken is featured in a new documentary series about people who are crazy for capsaicin. Superhot: The Spicy World of Pepper People debuted Jan. 22 as a 10-episode series on streaming service Hulu.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is requesting medical records of Texas youth who have received gender-affirming care from a Georgia telehealth clinic, marking at least the second time he’s sought such records from […]
Thanks to in no small part to its ground-in-house masa, San Antonio eatery Lala’s Gorditas is a local Tex-Mex favorite, but the winter months have been tough. Owner Steven Pizzini took to social media last weekend to ask Lala’s 10,000 Facebook followers to help out by placing walk-up or curbside pickup orders because business was desperately […]
Butthole Surfers, the San Antonio-born band that continues to reign as one of Texas’ weirdest musical exports, will reissue key recordings on vinyl through Matador Records. The reissue series will include material recorded during the Surfers’ “strange, grotesque and ultimately unparalleled first decade,” according to Matador’s online announcement.
The San Antonio Report has voluntarily recognized its employee union, workers and management at the nonprofit news organization confirmed Friday. The San Antonio Report Union’s 15 members met with management Thursday in what staffers described as an open and productive dialogue. During the discussion, management recognized the union, while staffers said they’ll continue to demand […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas renters are under more pressure from the state’s high housing costs than ever, according to a Harvard University study released Thursday. More than half of the state’s 4.2 million renter households spend […]
Three restaurant openings and a brewery being put up for sale were among the Current’s most-read food stories of the week. After weeks of reporting on the closings of well-known San Antonio restaurants, we got the news that a Mi Gente, a new locally owned spot focused on contemporary Tex-Mex, has sprung up inside one […]
Downtown fixture Rio Rio Cantina fed millions of tourists and locals during its 34 years in business. However, its owners confirmed Thursday they have shuttered the River Walk restaurant rather than renew its release. The colorful Tex-Mex eatery on the street level of 421 E. Commerce St. closed its dining room with views overlooking the […]
With news breaking about Gov. Greg Abbott’s political theater on the U.S.-Mexico border and the Justice Department report on law enforcement’s failures in the Uvalde mass shooting, it’s little surprise the Current’s most-read stories centered around those two issues. Our most-viewed story was an Assclown Alert column on Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve […]
After dropping “Selfish,” his first new single in nearly a decade, 2000s-era pop heartthrob Justin Timberlake has unveiled a new world tour with a San Antonio stop. Timberlake’s Forget Tomorrow World Tour will pull into the Frost Bank Center on Wednesday, May 27, according to the venue. Fans can expect the former NSYNC member to perform […]