Ground cinnamon sold by discount retailers including the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar may be contaminated with high levels of lead and should be thrown out, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said Wednesday. Supreme Tradition brand ground cinnamon, sold in those retail chains, is among a group of cinnamon products found to have levels that may be […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone an over-the-counter medication last summer, health care advocates praised the removal of the prescription barrier as an effective tool […]
The Jerk Shack is the latest San Antonio eatery scheduled to appear on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. The critically acclaimed restaurant revealed the news in a Wednesday social media post, inviting fans to tune in to the episode, which will air at 8 p.m. Friday, March 15.
Despite this year’s dismal mudbug harvest, San Antonio’s Big Texas Fun Crawfish Festival is moving ahead with plans to feed the fanatics. The event’s seventh-annual installment will serve up the coveted crustaceans at Selma’s Retama Park, 1 Retama Parkway, from March 8-24. Live music, dance, circus performances, a petting zoo, a carnival and deep-fried foods are […]
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has dropped an attempted murder charge against the former San Antonio police officer under indictment for shooting 17-year-old Erik Cantu in a McDonald’s parking lot in 2022, the Express-News reports. Initially, former officer James Brennand faced three charges, including two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant — both […]
The two-day Hemisfair music festival that promoters unveiled last month and trumpeted as a resurrection of San Antonio’s decades-gone La Semana Alegre concert series now has a lineup. Scheduled for April 25-26, the Fiesta-timed bash will feature headliners including North Texas post-grunge band Toadies, Grammy-winning Latin fusion act Ozomatli, LA indie rockers The Red Pears and […]
Roughly 100 authors with works spanning fantastic fiction, cultural criticism, young adult fiction and Texas politics will appear at this spring’s San Antonio Book Festival. The 12th iteration of the annual free festival will take place at the Central Library and the UTSA Southwest Campus on Saturday, April 13. Its top-billed guests include:
Underage spring breakers, consider yourselves warned: the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission isn’t just watching — its agents are working undercover. Dozens of TABC agents will fan out across Lone Star State liquor stores, bars and on beaches over spring break to catch underage drinkers and bust businesses that sell to minors, agency officials revealed Wednesday. […]
In the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting, Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez became known for delivering scorching oratories — and Tuesday’s concession speech in his unsuccessful race for the Democratic nomination to run against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was no exception. In a snippet of the speech shared online by TV station KSAT, the San […]
A little-known Democratic presidential candidate vowing to put former President Donald Trump on trial for treason went viral after his unexpectedly strong Super Tuesday performance in South Texas. Armando Perez-Serrato, a Californian running a protest campaign against President Joe Biden, racked up thousands of votes in at least three Rio Grande Valley counties’ Democratic primaries, […]