A bipartisan group of 11 South Texas state lawmakers this week sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in which they accused the Mexican government of failing to provide the Rio Grande Valley with water as required under the 1944 Water Treaty. The letter is the latest attempt to get Mexico to abide […]
Sunday, April 7, will commemorate National Beer Day, which marks the date the Cullen–Harrison Act repealed Prohibition. Whether that beer-focused holiday — or its Saturday, April 6, predecessor, dubbed New Beer’s Eve — end up drawing you to one of San Antonio’s growing number of brewpubs, there’s good reason not just to imbibe in those […]
The annual James Beard Awards — the food industry’s equivalent of the Oscars — has included San Antonio’s Mixtli and Cullum’s Attaboy in its 2024 round of finalists. Christopher Cullum, of Cullum’s Attaboy has moved forward in the Best Chef: Texas category, and Southtown favorite Mixtli is in the running for top honors in the […]
The Phoenix-based Postino Wine Café chain — known for eateries focused on boutique wines — will open a second Alamo City location, this one near the Pearl complex. The new cafe, located at 2600 Broadway, will offer more than 5,500 square feet of dining space when it begins serving later this spring, company officials said. […]
The longtime Jim’s Restaurants location at Hildebrand Avenue and San Pedro Avenue is scheduled to shut down this summer, MySA reports. Confirmation of the closure comes roughly two weeks after the San Antonio-based chain permanently shuttered another near-downtown restaurant at 4108 Broadway. That Jim’s location had been in operation for approximately 50 years.
The Austin investigator who delivered a controversial report clearing Uvalde law enforcement personnel of wrongdoing in their handling of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting had no training in responding to active shooter situations, KSAT reports. Although Jess Prado, a consultant the City of Uvalde hired to handle an investigation of the shooting response, served […]
From Sherlock Holmes to Nancy Drew, private detective stories in literature, TV and film have thrilled audiences for centuries. That history of mystery and suspense lives on in Sugar, a contemporary detective TV series on Apple TV+ that stars Oscar-nominated actor Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin).
The Lone Star State’s 188 distillers made a total economic impact of nearly $831.7 million in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available, according to new study from the Texas Distilled Spirits Association. The study shows the impact on-site and off-site spending by distillery visitors as well as the total economic impacts […]
With 8,050 inmate deaths recorded in Texas prisons from 2001 through 2019, the Lone Star State has among the nation’s highest mortality rates among its incarcerated population, according to a new study. Texas experienced the seventh-highest prison mortality rate in the U.S. during that time frame, according to the study, conducted by the Connecticut Trial Firm, which […]
San Antonio’s Curry Boys BBQ, a north-of-downtown eatery which has drawn critical praise for its fusion of South Texas and Southeast Asian flavors, is planning a second location, this one in Stone Oak, news site MySA reports. Owners Sean Wen, Andrew Samia and Andrew Ho will open their new venture somewhere in the northern part […]