Sometimes the best way to celebrate the holiday season is with a good old-fashioned beatdown. All Elite Wrestling’s Collision will be serving those up generously during a San Antonio bout just two days before Jesus’ birthday, and the event will host some of the nail-biting closing matches of the Triple Crown Tournament. Participants in the […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign two controversial immigration bills into law Monday afternoon at a ceremony in Brownsville — a move all but certain to trigger legal challenges from civil-rights groups. Of the two, the more contentious is Senate Bill 4, which would criminalize illegal entry from a foreign nation at the […]
Tony Parker’s No. 9 jersey returned to the rafters of San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center on Sunday during an emotional ceremony prior to the Spurs’ matchup against the New Orleans Pelicans. The jersey had been removed temporarily to stitch “Hall of Fame” to the banner. Parker was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame […]
San Antonio Chef Nicola Blaque next month will open Freight Fried Chicken, a new concept in the Pearl Bottling Department food hall that will serve her nationally lauded dry batter fried chicken. Freight will replace Blaque’s current food hall spot Mi Roti, located at 312 Pearl Parkway, Building 6. That eatery, which serves Caribbean-style wraps made […]
Environmental groups last week filed a legal complaint in federal court alleging that U.S. regulators failed to scrutinize the environmental impact of Space X’s failed South Texas rocket launches earlier this year. The Center for Biological Diversity, American Bird Conservancy, the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas and others allege in a supplemental petition that the Federal Aviation […]
Central America-born chicken chain Pollo Campero is targeting the Alamo City as its next expansion market, officials said Monday. Founded in Guatemala but now headquartered in Dallas, the fast-casual concept wants to add 15 San Antonio-area restaurants with as many as five coming online in the next five years. However, company officials didn’t provide details about […]
Some 227,000 new Texas mothers and their kids are at risk of losing access to a key federal nutrition-assistance program because Congress has failed to approve more funding, a recent analysis shows. The funding needs for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — more commonly known as WIC — have exploded […]
Cirque Musica, a traveling troupe that combines circus performances with live music, is hitting San Antonio as part of a 70-plus-stop tour of its holiday-themed show set in a faraway winter wonderland. Cirque Musica: Holiday Wonderland offers dazzling acts from a global cast of acrobats, contortionists and athletes paired with holiday music, including an aerial […]
In its 2024 budget, the City of San Antonio plans to provide shelter for 400 individuals experiencing homelessness. At the same time, it also pledges to “clean up 700 encampments,” meaning the displacement of more of the street population than it plans to shelter. There simply aren’t enough beds for all those who will be […]
It’s going to be an extra special holiday season for actress and comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes. Not only does she have a role in Candy Cane Lane, Eddie Murphy’s new family-friendly Christmas comedy, this will be the first time she and her husband Manwell will celebrate Christmas with their 6-month-old daughter Rosie.