San Antonio-based burger chain Whataburger will thank educators for their work with free breakfast on National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 6-10. During National Teacher Appreciation Week, any San Antonio educator who shows their school ID badge when they visit an area Whataburger will snag a free taquito, breakfast on a bun or honey butter chicken biscuit […]
The San Antonio Film Commission will screen three award-winning productions of the city’s brightest new filmmakers this Saturday evening at the historic outdoor theater Mission Marquee Plaza. The three films are winners of the #FilmSA Contest held each year by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture’s SA Film Commission and the […]
The City of San Antonio will pay $118,800 to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a man shot twice with crowd-control rounds by a San Antonio police officer during a 2020 protest against the murder of George Floyd. Alexander Lance sued the city in 2021, alleging a San Antonio SWAT officer shot him in […]
The Current’s annual San Antonio Flavor event will once again take over the San Antonio Museum of Art for a night showcasing bites and cocktails from more than 30 popular bars and restaurants. As with past iterations, the Thursday, May 9 event will feature an onstage culinary showdown that pits San Antonio-area chefs and their […]
San Antonio filmmaker Alejandro Cabrera may have made the documentary In the Lone Star Wars State about Texas’ thriving Star Wars fandom, but how big of an admirer is he of the revolutionary space epic? “On a scale of one to 10, I’m probably a 10 or 11,” Cabrera told the Current during a recent […]
Cypress Cafe, the Korean restaurant that’s operated from the basement of near-downtown office building Cypress Tower for 22 years, has been asked to move out by the structure’s main tenant, San Antonio-based H-E-B, news site MySA reports. “Yes, unfortunately we were notified yesterday and [are] in the process of speaking with the building. We are […]
A San Antonio man with reported links to the extremist “incel” movement was sentenced to five years in federal prison Thursday for making an online threat against people attending a right-wing political convention. Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, 20, warned on social media that he planned to unleash a “day of retribution” against the Student Action Summit […]
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Students from five San Antonio higher-ed campuses sent letters asking their respective administrations to “publicly oppose” an order by Gov. Greg Abbott requiring campuses to revise their free-speech policies to counter what he called a “sharp rise in antisemitic speech.” The letter — sent Wednesday to the presidents of San Antonio College, UTSA, Texas A&M San […]