Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members Billy Joel and Sting will perform a co-headlined show at San Antonio’s Alamodome on Friday, Oct. 25. The legendary singer-songwriters will perform songs from throughout their careers, according to details shared by LiveNation, which is producing the show. This is Joel’s first Alamo City appearance since a 2016 AT&T Center concert and […]
Two Texas women who were forced to leave the state to terminate non-viable pregnancies will be highlights of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign in the coming days, including in next week’s State of the Union address. A minute-long ad narrated by Texas OB-GYN Dr. Austin Dennard came out early this week to coincide with the […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Parks and Wildlife commissioners are considering a land swap with SpaceX that would give Elon Musk’s space exploration company about 43 acres from Boca Chica State Park.
Fifteen staffers at the San Antonio Report walked off the job Wednesday after the nonprofit media organization unexpectedly laid off its audience editor. The workers, who last week announced plans to organize as the San Antonio Report Union, will unconditionally return to work Thursday, a representative told the Current. The laid-off editor, Sandra Santos, revealed her […]
After winning victories in Austin, San Marcos and other Texas cities, activists are now collecting signatures to get marijuana decriminalization on the November ballot in Dallas and Lockhart, news site Marijuana Moment reports. The groups Ground Game Texas and Texas Cannabis Collective are leading the latest organizing pushes, according to Marijuana Moment. Ground Game Texas […]
Bison, owls and bears, oh my! On the last weekend of January — rain or shine — guests at the Briscoe Western Art Museum will have the opportunity to walk on the wild side as part of the Wild West Wildlife Festival.
Passengers on a Texas-bound flight found themselves in one stinker of a situation after the crew was forced to remove a passenger who wouldn’t stop farting, according to a now-viral online post. The gaseous gaffe occurred on a Jan. 14 American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Austin, as poster Lamgalatx chronicled on Reddit’s r/Austin page. […]
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, called on the Biden administration to nationalize the Texas National Guard if Gov. Greg Abbott won’t follow a Monday U.S. Supreme Court ruling that lets federal agents cut razor wire the state installed to deter border crossings. “Governor Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create […]
Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. “If DPS as an institution — as an institution — failed the families, failed the school or failed the community of Uvalde, then absolutely I need to go,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said during an October 2022 meeting with the families […]
At the end of the month, 12 top pianists from five countries will convene in San Antonio for the return of the Gurwitz International Piano Competition. Presented by Musical Bridges Around the World, the quadrennial competition features top pianists from across the globe, vying for gold, silver and bronze medals with prizes of $30,000, $20,000 […]