Prominent civil-rights attorney Lee Merritt filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the San Antonio Police Department violated the rights of 13-year-old Andre “AJ” Hernandez when officers shot and killed the youth during a June 2022 stolen vehicle call. The suit, filed in San Antonio, argues that SAPD officer Stephen Ramos violated Hernandez’s Fourth Amendment […]
Brazilian Steakhouse Fogo de Chão will open a second San Antonio location sometime in the next two years, according to expansion details released by the Dallas-based company. The new restaurant is part of an aggressive expansion that will include additional stores stateside and in cities including Manila, Philippines; Brasilia, Brazil; Istanbul, Turkey; and São Paulo, […]
Drake has pushed back the next leg of his It’s All a Blur Tour — Big as the What? tour, which means the rap superstar is rescheduling next week’s two sold-out San Antonio shows for later this spring. The Drake and J. Cole concerts originally scheduled for Monday, Jan. 22, and Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Frost […]
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Staff at nonprofit news organization San Antonio Report have voted to unionize, according to a Tuesday social media post. Reporters, editors, business staffers and photojournalists at the 12-year-old outlet moved to join the Media Guild of the West after witnessing staffing- and budget-related issues at other nonprofit publications, the San Antonio Report Union wrote in […]
San Antonio-based Whataburger’s nationwide expansion reached a significant milestone Tuesday with the opening of its 1,000th store. The honor of being the brand’s 1,000th restaurant is shared by two locations — a corporate-owned store in Atlanta and a franchise-owned one in Yukon, Oklahoma. Both opened Tuesday, Jan. 16, Whataburger officials said.
San Antonio Independent School District closed 27 campuses Wednesday after frigid temperatures resulted in burst pipes and heat outages. In an email to parents, SAISD Superintendent Jaime Aquino apologized for the district’s lack of functioning facilities and acknowledged that the district’s preparations for the arctic blast fell short. “Our Facilities staff were onsite where needed, […]
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Nobody, not even San Antonio’s arch-nemesis up I-35, would argue that our city lacks for quality taquerias. Sometimes it seems as though they’re on every other corner.
Six-time Tony Award-winning musical My Fair Lady, which also spawned the renowned 1964 film starring Audrey Hepburn, is waltzing into San Antonio for a limited two-day run. The rags-to-riches tale begins in a London town square, where Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle (Anette Barrios-Torres) has a chance encounter with one of England’s most revered phonetics […]